I came over to deviantArt from dMusic. I had no interest in graphic design or digital art but I loved what those guys were doing as web architects. I definitely

I came over to deviantArt from dMusic. I had no interest in graphic design or digital art but I loved what those guys were doing as web architects. I definitely lied about my age on a contract when I joined the staff. I cringe looking at my old userpage and have no idea why they ever put up with me, but I'm glad they did because I learned so much as a programmer just from being in the same room (or IRC channel, more accurately) as them. The biggest gift they gave me was a little space on their server to run my own PHP site, which I used to rip of all their code and make an online community for DIY punk bands. It kind of exploded in popularity and was so badly coded that I constantly crashed their MySQL server and eventually got the boot. When I went to college I figured programming was the obvious path, but the Java and VB classes they offered seemed so outdated and unimportant compared to what I knew was possible on the web. It really bummed me out on real world computer stuff so I just dropped out of technology completely and played starving musician for way way way too long. Now I'm old and trying to catch up to kids who don't even know a world without social networks...