Viewing source of the internet around the time I was just starting elementary school. Educated me a bunch, especially since the internet back then was super-pri

Viewing source of the internet around the time I was just starting elementary school. Educated me a bunch, especially since the internet back then was super-primitive. People were using VBScript back then. I had no mentors, so when I took a look at Javascript, I got confused as to what curly braces were ("Where's the endif? VBScript has endifs! And what are those silly {} things for?"). I finally got into PHP around middle school early high school when I wrote a really primitive webcomic system for a friend, modeled after megatokyo. Full of SQL injection holes, though I started to figure out and create my own OOP-ish system. Later: Python (Pylons), PostgreSQL, Java Servlets, Jersey, Play Framework, Jackson (in roughly that order, omitting a lot of detail). Only ever had a mentor who taught me new things once, when learning the servlets stuff. The rest of the time, I had no mentorship :(.