I had a similar experience. I worked at a travelling agency in the early 2000's. There were days without a single customer, and I was the only employee at that

I had a similar experience. I worked at a travelling agency in the early 2000's. There were days without a single customer, and I was the only employee at that particular office. Internet access was shielded (and monitored!), and we had no radio. On 9/11 someone barged in and told me the news, because I was unaware. Anyway, I got some books about HTML, and later PHP from the library and started coding in notepad. To this day I think this has been a blessing, a lot of my friends learned by copy-pasting scripts, but I had to learn from the bottom up. Long story short: I learned how to code and got the hell away from that dead-end job.