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Well it has always been like this. In early 2000s most developers I knew would simply copy-paste code from all over the Internet.

Nowadays you use NPM search instead of Google search

The fact is that lazy programmers are lazy. The methods change but the principle remains the same. In 90s people typed in code from magazines and books.



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