Wikipedia - yes, I love this tool. When I became an instructor for the USAF, I thought I would be teaching my expertise...i.e. radars. That surprisingly, was not the case. I found myself tossed into the networking world - network assurance, network addressing (class-full and class-less), subnetting, etc. Then I was also handed the additional area of technology called multiplexing - and there's a plethora of aspects in that area as well.
Where to go to find this? Well, I did what many people do - I "Googled" the topics I needed and invariably at the top of the list would be Wikipedia. I'd not used it before so took a chance. Was I pleasantly surprised.
I am a knowledge junkie. It started when I was a child and I would sit on the floor next to the book shelf and read the Encyclopedia Britannica. I need to know things, I need to learn. Wikipedia gives me the knowledge I need to do my job. One nice feature of Wikipedia pages is that there are additional links outside of their site that leads to more knowledge. For instance, if I type in "Cicsco Routers" in Wikipedia, it will have an article about it, then a link to Cisco itself. That's just one example.
This is a tool that I use everytime I need knowledge and it's usually just the tip of the iceberg. If you've not done it - check it out for yourself. Here's the link! Wikipedia
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