I started learning HTML back in early high school (~96). Very fond memories of doing our warm-up laps in gym class with a friend (who is my part-time LLC busine

I started learning HTML back in early high school (~96). Very fond memories of doing our warm-up laps in gym class with a friend (who is my part-time LLC business partner to this day), and we tried to remember whether it was the 'a' or 'href' part that came first. We heard rumors that there were web developers who would make $100/hr programming. The combination of those dollar signs and the magic of being able to write something that would manipulate the screen (the latter being much more motivating, to be honest) is what kept me up until 3 or 4am many nights/mornings, only to wake up at 6am to hang out with my dad before he left for work. This resulted at least one time in in me falling asleep in my high school health class, waking up entirely alone after the period ended. Oops. I felt so many times that I was _so close_ to being able to understand how to do this new, exciting CGI thing. Something about the form action? What should that be -- the filename I want to write? Do I put the counter + 1 value there? Oh, it's just GET or POST. Oops. I bought a book, CGI How-TO, one day at Media Play[0] with some friends while on a brief break from our LAN party setup. (Coaxial networking was a huge PITA - as soon as someone came or left, our in-progress game was terminated.) It discussed C and Perl. That book sits on the bookshelf four feet away from me right now for the nostalgia and the love of learning. A few years later, I asked my parents for Learning Python Programming for a Christmas gift. I flipped through it trying to grok what a tuple was. That thick book sat on my shelf for a lot longer than it should have, but the joy of having such a tome of possibilities was unlike most others. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Play