I found a book teaching HTML at a library somewhere in 1995. It was in a visual format explaining what the markups do.
My favorite was the one that made words blink.
I typed things into Notepad, meticulously tabbing and aligning the little tags to make sure it's okay.
Next year I stumbled upon a Taiwanese website somehow, with a call to action for submissions to their design contest.
I made something and sent it. For some miracle I won. They called my jr. high school for it too for some reason and got confused when I answered thinking I was a student in a fancy college in the Americas.
For the award ceremony my mom had to go accept. She was on the way home grocery shopping and didn't understand what the Internet or World Wide Web was. They congratulated her with her shopping bags in hand.
What a wild 30 years to the whole world getting connected.
My favorite was the one that made words blink.
I typed things into Notepad, meticulously tabbing and aligning the little tags to make sure it's okay.
Next year I stumbled upon a Taiwanese website somehow, with a call to action for submissions to their design contest.
I made something and sent it. For some miracle I won. They called my jr. high school for it too for some reason and got confused when I answered thinking I was a student in a fancy college in the Americas.
For the award ceremony my mom had to go accept. She was on the way home grocery shopping and didn't understand what the Internet or World Wide Web was. They congratulated her with her shopping bags in hand.
What a wild 30 years to the whole world getting connected.