Being able to learn HTML in a weekend and put it up on a Geocities page was pretty much the start of my career (if you can call it that) of creating stuff for t

Being able to learn HTML in a weekend and put it up on a Geocities page was pretty much the start of my career (if you can call it that) of creating stuff for the web, something which I'm still loving 12? years later. A grey, Times New Roman page 'About My Life' might not have seemed exciting to anyone else, but it was the same 'wow, I made that!' moment as the first time a BASIC program printed my name across the screen. (On reflection, many of these beginnings are egotistical, aren't they?) It strikes me that Kids These Days Don't Have It So Good. Stuff is complex now. A page with nowt but a <title> and <h1> tag looks rubbish. Back in the day, everything looked rubbish so your first page actually looked kinda cool. Obfuscating the real work through helpful frameworks and builders does help one get started, but there's always the sense that it's not really the same as starting from nothing. I do wonder what the current, or immediate, equivalent to those magic first steps might be.