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I went to university in September 1997. In my first week there I used the internet for the first time. It took me about an hour to decide I wanted to learn how
by onion2k 5y ago
I went to university in September 1997. In my first week there I used the internet for the first time. It took me about an hour to decide I wanted to learn how to make my own website, to start figuring out what I needed to learn, and to fire up an editor and to write my first HTML tag. 6 months later I got my first freelance gig. I've been making web stuff ever since.
I got it right, but with hindsight it was pretty obvious it was going to be a big thing.
- NetOpWibby 5y agoI was 9 in ‘97 but by late middle school I was writing simple websites in Notepad and referencing my dad’s Macromedia Dreamweaver book. It really felt like the Internet was a fantastical place, a destination for unlimited possibilities.
- rchaud 5y agoI'm about 6 years younger than you judging from that timeline. I had a home phone line that could connect to a dial-up server. The desire to create websites didn't hit me until I too was in college, and by that time the web was much more complex than in '97, and I never got beyond basic static sites in Dreamweaver. More than a decade later, I finally learned how to do it. HTML+CSS+JS and a bit of PHP for WordPress. I'll never be paid a cent for this knowledge as I'm not a web designer, but it feels good to work on my own sites, just as an expression of myself, and as a hobby.