Learning HTML When I Was 10 Years Old

[@Vifnis]

"Page Under Construction" Man, I miss those days... today sites just don;t work and don't even bother anymore...

[@sebastiangudino9377]

Hi, UX/UI designer and developer here. Those usually still exist for sections of the site! For example the company announced a feature and added a landing there at the URL where that feature is gonna be that is basically a placeholder for that feature. But other than that this just doesn't happen because it makes no sense paying for hosting only to host literally nothing. Back then you just wanted to secure the domain, so you probably got a service that allowed you to buy domain + hosting, and simply putting that text was better than nothing. So you might still find this type of pages for sites created by people with website builders like wix or squarespace

[@lasse0033]

I can relate (to the last part) as a perfectionist webdeveloper

[@nntebi1422]

tons of websites do, stop with negativity nostalgia bs

[@andrive]

Haven't seen that in a while

[@aceman0000099]

It's because of Woke.

[@ErikBongers]

You first have to write a letter and mail it to the internet owner. Just add a print-out of the html file in the envelop and, if accepted, it will be published.

[@spookycode]

Actually, at the time a web admin with enough time may have actually done that.

[@yarpen26]

Ah yes, the Internet owner, the famous Mr. Wicket W. Warrick. He supposedly put it together from the stormtrooper helmets that the Ewoks captured during the battle of Endor.

[@reginwill]

They'll also deliver your hockey sweater if you include some money, if Roch Carrier is to be believed

[@IT10T]

If anyone owns the internet, it's the DOD.

[@sweetshit4931]

which means send html prints to W3C. Thanks

[@isaiahkroeker7062]

Honestly, stories like these are so encouraging. It shows how normal it is to have these moments. Most of the time, the only ways you ask questions are on Stack Overflow where there's always some dev whose forgotten what it's like to be learning.

[@kcnl2522]

He was 10 dude... when i was 10 i was still watching cartoons

[@isaiahkroeker7062]

@@kcnl2522 And your point? I fail to see how what you've said contradicts anything I said.

[@paulgupta2454]

CA majors in college are still on his 10 yo level lol. Love this though, we all start off not knowing better

[@BboyKeny]

True. This stuff isn't obvious at all, even if it feels like that after a while. Moving electricity into a weirdly processed rock in a way so it reproduces my face and voice making it possible for me to talk to the rock and it talks back... we long left the sane mundane world.

[@fucit9866]

@@kcnl2522 When I was 13 I was trying to build a website with notepad ++ and it was a nightmare until the next year i stumbled upon vs-code and built my first website which was about the best 5 anime websites

[@ThapeloMKT]

F for execution A+ for creativity

[@Meloncov]

Thought this was gonna end with 10 year old Ed learning what erectile disfunction is.

[@Vifnis]

hahaha would have been even funnier

[@LabhamJain]

Or maybe someone 2km away waiting for him 🤣

[@Balls-mv6ws]

or if it automatically went to an adult website and played p**n at max volume while his parents were in the next room

[@thalesavila745]

underrated comment

[@mehdiahmed7836]

Or even something worse 😂

[@fproulx]

😂 I was 12 years old in 1995 and lived in a rural area and did not get internet access until a year later, but In high school I would save as to floppy disk html pages return home, open in notepad and learn HTML by reverse engineering (ie chop and replace bits) then preview in Netscape offline that got in a CD ROM in a magazine. The day I got dial up, I came in person to my local ISP with a floppy disk of my webpage and saw the guy upload to their Apache server in person, like he put the floppy in the server itself that’s how I published my first webpage circa summer 96 😅

[@peterszarvas94]

manual deploying, omg nice

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

Damn. That's a long time ago.

[@Kamakazi_Jester]

your story is inspiring, where is your networking and internet knowledge at now? what have you been working on since the1990's?

[@Duckman4444]

dam thats actually cool asf story ngl

[@rayzecor]

Cool story, thanks for sharing

[@DegradationDomain_stuff]

This is the purest childish programming story 😂 I love it ❤ But it also poses a question: Would Rust fix it?

[@BFedie518]

I bow down to the ten-year-old who can make Rust compile.

[@lmfao-tp4cx]

@@BFedie518 at 10 years old i don't even think I knew what a compiled language was 😂

[@BFedie518]

@@lmfao-tp4cx At 10 I was using the most advanced programming language there is: Scratch.

[@tHeplAyiER]

Omg that story is great 😊 Thanks for sharing 🙌

[@rretro2042]

this is really a noob moment there, but seriously this is how it should be, it shouldn't be hard to put a website on the internet like how we need to go through myriads of configuration between our domain and hosting services

[@JM-jk9vz]

I remember when I wrote my first Hello World in C++. I made a Facebook post about it calling myself a programmer 😂😂

[@hypergraphic]

That's so cute. I felt the same when I tried object Pascal.

[@abdirahmann]

😂😂😂😂

[@InnerEagle]

you were

[@shipweck6253]

“My name *was* ed”

[@caiomazzaferroadami]

Pretty sure he said "my name is Ed"

[@MSz-xh3sg]

The standard text editor

[@skycaptain39]

Don't you hear his intro? He changed it to "low level learning"

[@WofWca]

"You're human. And I was human."

[@ThisShitWontWor]

His name isn’t a const variable

[@MrPilotStunts]

I used to make games in PowerPoint when i was 7 or 8. I didn't even know the concept of programming existed, i imagined all computer related things to be crafted basically manually using something like assembly language, though i didn't think of it as any language. But i had a second hand wrecked 5 centimetres thick laptop, windows xp, paint and power point. And i would make visual novel style games, a cafe owner simulator for example. Wild stuff :D After buying our first internet modem and getting my hands on it, making a website had basically become a dream. I started with exporting word documents as htmls. But how do i share them, where do i put them? Then i began using ome web site builders. By the age of 12 i had a running html+css+js+php website of my own. Not self-hosted, but still epic to me. But i still had no plan, no roadmap for where to go further. Too bad i had nobody to properly introduce me to the world of computer science back then, so after a while i just abandoned this hobby of mine because i couldn't find what my next step was supposed to be.

[@koftabalady]

You broke my heart with nobody introducing you to computer science, I have the same problem too. Good thing I was introduced to the world of internet, mostly KZbin, at an early age. at least I know what to learn in school, although I don't go except for exams, to help me pursue my dream...

[@MrPilotStunts]

@@koftabalady good luck to you! Thankfully, today all sorts of education materials are in abundance. If i could give you a piece of advice, it would be just don't give up. Not when you can't do things right, not when you don't know what to do, not when you're having a struggle. Struggle is the process through which we learn. It sometimes gets very frustrating. We don't always get the desired results after the first, second or third attempt and so on. The progress is gradual and you never know how much time it will take, how much practicing and searching for and filling up all your knowledge gaps you will need. It's okay to lose interest in something and want to quit in favour of something else. But make sure not to lose interest and quit over a struggle. Or think you are not meant for it just because things don't go right. I really like Picard's quote: "It is possible to commit no mistakes, but still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life". As long as you don't give up, no matter how much confusion and struggle you run into, know that you're doing things right just by not giving up and bearing with the fact that you don't always get the result you expected. Trust in gradual progress, embrace the success and don't let failure make you feel down. Struggle is our friend.

[@ilikerainandburger]

IT IS ME😢

[@TheArchCoder]

I was introduced to programming by my brother, He started programming, Before that he used to make games. I always thought that programming would be difficult, However when i was 10 i decided to learn python. And now currently i am 11, Using rust and assembly. (Still a beginner in assembly, Though rust was okay to learn) I learned alot in that 1 year and i am not satisfied.

[@silloo2072]

​Wow how did you do that tell me please, how can you pass from python to assembly in one year😮😮😮😮😮​@@TheArchCoder

[@mxlje]

When I started out i didn’t understand the concept of attributes on tags so when I wanted something red and bold for example I would two nested tags, one with weight=bold and one with color=red. Good times.

[@ORLYWTF]

I was at a similar age and did that too, lol. I had taught myself x86 assembly and C because I wanted to make those ASCII loaders that were all the rage on BBSes in the late 80s/early 90s and then I wanted to mod DOOM. So when the internet and the WWW became a thing around the time I was in high school, there was money to be made and I learned HTML, JavaScript, and PERL and made a few websites for people. It was fun. Kind of wish I stuck with it.

[@VolkColopatrion]

The innocence of children. That is delightfully adorable

[@lmnk]

Remember when everyone was writing tags in for no reason? Even HTML textbooks used it... And then some day everyone just switched to tags, all that before HTML5.

[@PySnek]

We did this because back then most editors had no syntax highlighting and it was therefore harder to see what's syntax and what not.

[@Noam-Bahar]

Its still a thing in SQL for some reason

[@anthonychurch1567]

@@Noam-Bahar Well if you DELETE you need WHERE or you end up deleting everything so capitals for keywords in SQL help highlight. SQL still runs with lowercase though.

[@lgasc]

I prefer uppercase tags

[@HrHaakon]

@@Noam-Bahar Because SQL by standard is case-unbothered. It doesn't care. But saying SELECT blahdibla FROM some_table WHERE bloobidy > 4; makes it very easy to see where the keywords are and where the actual thinky bits are, for lack of a better word.

[@Little-bird-told-me]

Cute story. I am sure we all had similar experiences. Personally my aaha moment was when I wrote alert("hello"); in my console log and out poped a window in my browser!

[@joeylantis22]

lol “console log” you mean your dev tools javascript console?

[@whoami-u9g]

Lol, this is relatable for every self-taught dev

[@xamidi]

Not really. I wasn't that stupid even with 6 years old.

[@TheArchCoder]

@@xamidi how the hell do you code while being 6 You're definetly lying.

[@xamidi]

@@TheArchCoder No, first, some people code at six, second, you don't need to code to understand that this cannot be how websites work. It requires only basic logical reasoning.

[@whoami-u9g]

​@@xamidi 🧢

[@xamidi]

@@whoami-u9g Nope, no cap. Just gifted. This was meant to argue against such generalizing statements, which are generally false.

[@hhhsp951]

I remember being 6 or 7 and having a Chromebook, just making html files with random pointless button and radial button and input box entries, just being my unknowingly autistic self having the imaginative style of the machines from The Matrix.

[@demonman1234]

I started by neglecting my work in school and poking around with websites via inspect element/view page source. I’d look at the source, try and determine what each tag did/the structure used (by creating my own in notepad with those specific tags), then searching up the tag/what it did if I didn’t know it. Was a good way to learn tbh.

[@outtakontroll3334]

pages used to be so much simpler code in the early days

[@demonman1234]

@@outtakontroll3334 it wasn’t really that long ago, this was maybe 7th grade? I’m 19 now..

[@XD-tw4uj]

@@demonman1234 idk if it's just where I live but inspect element doesn't work on school chromebooks at the last 2 I've been to, sadly.

[@demonman1234]

@@XD-tw4uj when I was in school we didn’t use the chromebooks, but yeah that’s because they typically lock it on school chromebooks now.

[@thedapperfoxtrot]

That’s a genuine kid moment. Too funny 😆

[@darbyburbidge8976]

The first time I encountered HTML was on myspace trying to add a music player to my profile. I remember thinking "what the hell is this mystical shit?" I briefly tried to pick it apart, but there was 0 indentation and I had no idea what I was looking at. I then didn't think about it for another 5 years until I tried coding and I had this very weird feeling like I had seen things like it before. It is very weird to think back on.

[@fluffyfirehydrant]

when i was 8 years old I thought that the ‘add server’ button in minecraft would just create a server for me and my friends with whatever name and IP address I put in.

[@americanhuman1848]

I wish it did man that would make the process so much easier

[@Vosovogalsyncope]

Who is old enough to remember Proggies on AOL, developed on VB?

[@ORLYWTF]

Oh I remember. Even wrote a couple using VB6, IIRC 😂 Punting was such a power move back in the day, lol.

[@Vosovogalsyncope]

@@ORLYWTF yes! 🤣

[@SyNKevN]

Was looking for this comment I could go on for hours and hours about cracking host accounts, winsock cracking, spamming, nons, phish, certs, 3chrs, overhead accounts(scrolling), sub7, vb4 was where I started. AOL 2.5 5o 5.0 then I left to mirc and AOL died. Best times...

[@SyNKevN]

​@@ORLYWTFfunny enough, punting, and even suspending accounts was incredibly easy. Most chat rooms, people has their sound enabled for AOL, so all you had to do was type {s con/con into the chat room, and you'd see the entire chat room empty. It would BSOD their pc and what's funny is they had no clue why. 😎

[@SyNKevN]

To elaborate on the {s con/con. It was some sort of placeholder that AOL used to have as a sound file, but typing that, the AOL server tried to retrieve the wav file and play it, but it didn't exist, causing BSOD. 😂

[@BibendiYT]

This is so relatable. Looking back on moments like these really help us see how far we have come in our learning journey.

[@liamwelsh5565]

I remember when I was 10 years old finding some bogus site that said it could write any program with an English description. I wrote this long description of a game I wanted to create, and obviously, it didn't do anything useful. Fast forward to today, and that is something that you actually can do for simple applications.

[@skylo706]

My first html experience is funny: So when I was around 7 or so, I had a win2000 and i was constantly searching for new files and programs to learn about them. I then found the video files of lego racers 2 in the folder. However they weren't mp4s per se. They opened in my browser, embedded in html and so I researched what html is and tried stuff out. It was cool, but I didn't even realize at the time that it was my first step to learning how to code

[@BubbleS1]

Those early days, i remeber port forwarding a Minecraft server and not knowing qhat i did, so when i broke it, the port was just open with no server for so long lmaoo

[@ipaqmaster]

You can never quite capture that magic again. Writing some HTML as a kid then wondering how you actually get it onto some hosting. And the joys of port forwarding on 50 different models of home router each with their own stupid way of over complicating the ui for doing so.

[@doggoinastukagames1500]

Wow man that’s really funny lol. It reminds me of how when I was younger I thought every time I used inspect element I was hacking

[@yarpen26]

At the very least we can find solace in knowing that the NSA will never learn what nasty shit we Google while in the Incognito mode.

[@blarghblargh]

You and half of low tier front end devs. No other way to explain stuff like disabling right click

[@iraniansuperhacker4382]

@@yarpen26 yo man I hate to break it to you but google is jointly a cia project. Sergey Brin and Larry page, the founders of google, were meeting with cia handlers as far back as 1995 before google was even made. As they were developing the software and publishing the white paper that would later become google they were meeting with cia handlers in a special office set up across the street of Stanford.

[@SirusStarTV]

Yeah, i though i can alter the server side code of a website by doing inspection

[@CFalcon030]

@10 I was learning 10 print "hello" 20 goto 10. Good thing is it had instant gratification or syntax error...

[@TIBI4]

When I was younger, I thought databases were downloaded to compare the passwords. 😂

[@Rudxain]

the ENTIRE database? lmao, it kinda makes sense

[@prawtism]

I was 14 and my Dad asked for a website. Was easier to make a big image in photoshop and just add the clickable stuff with coordinates or smth. So it was just an image and the bg color, the image blended into the same color :D

[@sarjannarwan6896]

One of my first was copying a script tag and just select all paste, select all paste until I had a crap ton of pop up alerts. Crashed the school network and got excluded for a day 😅

[@black53342]

I used to do something similar when I was 11. I thought I had to contact the internet owner to publish my website. 😂

[@ees4.]

LOL

[@iraniansuperhacker4382]

I am the internet owner please send me 300$ and we will publish your website.

[@Kruize]

Me: "Omg!! He's gonna program in Vim!" 👀 *sees only HTML* Me: "Phew"

[@alexinom9180]

I thought the same think, because everyone talk about how build good code, but none talk about how publish it. I lost 100€ because I tried to buy an domain but I didn’t understand how to use it. After three months I understood that must have an host.😅

[@rallokkcaz]

Ed! I can say you're name finally. I think we both did this together at 12-13 years old haha. I remember our first JS site (IE JS was so fucked too, we both had MacBooks as our main machines), we were trying to write JS too on your HP laptop you borrowed from your mom. We thought we added it to the internet by locally opening the file haha in IE6. Real origin stories here.

[@MechMK1]

I had a Sony Ericsson walkman phone back then, and a file explorer program. I randomly came across a .html file and saw tags like and and saw they made stuff bold and italic. So I tried all different letters to see what they did. Because this is how I thought learning things was like. Just try it out.

[@Gann4Life]

My story starts at 11 years old opening unity 'cause I wanted to make games of course, opened a javascript file and I saw the basic template, at that moment I didn't understand what was it and I uninstalled the software immediatly 'cause I thought I was about to break the whole computer lmao I'm now a C# fanboy, not like I know a lot tho, I just feel confident with it and Java

[@ozzyfromspace]

The first time I tried making a website, I was like 8 years old It was really a PowerPoint that looked like a crappy early 2000s neon site in dark mode. The links took you to other sites on the real web Needless to say, it was never published… cuz it was a frikkin PowerPoint guys 😂 I’m encouraging you all to keep up with your learning journey. Progress comes in time. I’m now (finally) a full time, self-taught software engineer at a Silicon Valley startup. You’ve got this. Just keep showing up 🙏🏽

[@reallyWyrd]

I had an experience like that. When I was young, the Commodore was really old, but the Internet wasn't quite "cooked" yet either. My dad got me a used C128 with a bunch of bootleg C64 games. Of course these were mostly binary executables. But the C64/128 also supports BASIC. It is saved in tokenized form to save space. So anyway, if you try to load a binary file into the BASIC program space, of course it displays as a bunch of gibberish "BASIC". (Binary data misinterpreted as tokenized BASIC.) But I remember staring at it, and thinking that if I was smarter, this gibberish would somehow "make sense". `It must be so advanced,' I thought. Not completely wrong, but about 97% wrong. :-)

[@CFEF44AB1399978B0011]

When I was learning HTML, I couldn't figure out why my form wouldn't work for like 3 hours while riding the bus home from school over a couple days. It was because I'm incapable of spelling and I was trying to use the "imput" tag instead of the "input" tag.

[@xutiTrinh]

Remember the days I use all `marquee` tags just for 'animation' :lol:

[@javabeanz8549]

Fun story. My oldest child was learning to build websites at 8, but I had found a beginning website book, so they had a bit of an advantage. It probably also helped a lot that I actually owned servers that were colocated at local ISPs, so didn't need to talk to some sales person to get ftp set up.

[@tilakmadichettitheappdeveloper]

Vim at 10 yrs old. Now that explains a lot

[@Jp-ue8xz]

We all have a bunch of stories about absolutely r*trded stuff we did while we were young and learning, but it takes a special set of ballz and courage to actually make them public lmao

[@MBOclips]

This same thing happened to me with Thor. He started popping up then it was a wrap. Seen dudes Hellas today. Have 0 idea what he talks about but interesting

[@opusdei1151]

I once thought, I hacked Microsoft, because I connected to their open FTP server

[@paulcervenka]

I felt the same way when I made a website with HTML as a kid. I wanted so badly to just be able to throw a simple page up on the internet hahaha

[@AmazingLube]

I started coding websites when I was 14 and it took me a while to figure out that I need to name the main file “index”. I was so proud when I figured it out

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

lol ok when i was 10 years old which is 6 years ago i'm not old like you we have notepad, blud someone taught me html and then yep i make a game all in one html file with all html css and javascript in it! the good thing about html is you don't need to put it on website you can share those as .html file to your friend and they can just open with browser the html interpreter will construct elements on screen for you it's built in and crossplatform

[@Kamakazi_Jester]

hello, how old are you now? and you should share the link to the game you made

[@a.v7998]

You made a website when you were 10. Your a True Civil engineer man 👍🏻👍🏻😊

[@Jason9637]

I made my first websites in the dev console on about:blank

[@TheRealMangoDev]

like this comment if you started learning html at 9 or 8 years old

[@DanCycles]

I did it! * starts applying for web developer jobs *

[@MsHojat]

I remember learning some basic HTML but asking a friend how to do frames, which he said he knew how to do. I don't know how honest he was being though, but he might have just been lazy-reluctant to teach anything (particularly over instant messenger), so I didn't learn anything at all from him. Later I learned CSS and HTML online though. W3C reference docs and webmasterworld forums were great. I wouldn't blame him for not teaching frames because they were a bit annoying from what I recall; although like I said I'm not even sure how truthful he was. s were so much simpler and by that point I think they were well supported by browsers and quite ubiquitous. I never ended up getting into back end programming much since I just did backend-less webpages as well ad admin work for some pages that had pre-written back end (CMS).

[@vieilatome2257]

So cute, reminds me when I was trying to code as a kid... ❤

[@jdubz8173]

So relatable. I thought I could make a video game by typing a description into a txt file and save it as an exe.

[@Rudxain]

I once thought renaming PNG to JPG (and viceversa) changes the format, because the image viewer could show the image successfully either way

[@hamburgerfatso]

Lol when i was a kid i tried to learn Java because of runescape, using a textbook from the library. I couldn't work out wtf classes were and all the oop mumbo jumbo the book was going on about, so i gave up 3 days later and went back to playing runescape :D

[@reiniermoreno1653]

U didn't asked but this remember the time I was "learning" java just to edit some values in bin files in Minecraft mods for bukkit servers Now I know why I never understand all those code lines (fckng Java)

[@cesaraugustomarcelinodossa5138]

Gosh, same thing for me!!! First computer language I learned was HTML. I still have the "source code" of my first website when I was ten... Good times, talking about games and cheat codes I learned from magazines and sharing with... Perhaps 10 people in total that accessed my site when I was 10? 😅

[@kylekowalczyk3437]

It's so easy to forget what it was like to be a beginner with technology, but we all started out with humble assumptions like this. I know I have those stories of my own. Thank you for sharing!

[@HuntingKingYT]

We've all been there weren't we

[@abhisheknavgan6829]

incidants like this 😂😂

[@themichaelw]

If only deployments were that easy 😂

[@j.r.r.tolkien8724]

My man was illiterate when it came to the internet.

[@WhiteGroyper]

whatchya doing reading zig docs?

[@gbasilveira]

😂 hehe. At 10 I was building a social media with MS-word when there were no concept of social media (1997) 😅. My first startup failure

[@sussteve226]

I 13 and I learned at 10 to. Thought that you had to send some message to "whoever owned the internet". Lol, now I know HTML,CSS and PHP so...

[@ms-fk6eb]

continue learning! PHP shouldn't be your last stop :P

[@sussteve226]

@@ms-fk6eb Thanks

[@GDNachoo]

​@@sussteve226im curious, ever deployed a website to the internet yet? you seem to be on a good path

[@sussteve226]

@@GDNachoo yeah. Google "gr8brik"

[@Pawlo370]

so how

[@youssefadel5491]

Web hosting service

[@TheRythimMan]

Yes. 99.9% of coding tutorials I've followed are missing the step that's needed to make your code useful to anyone. It really makes you feel like an idiot.

[@JarppaGuru]

i would be shocked if that work like locally LOL but how in earth would know where htm file is LOL making html tag to read browser and grap file is easy

[@iogilarb]

wait, u using zig now 😂❤

[@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7]

My first foray into HTML was the WildTangent Penguins game. If I recall correctly, the help menus were HTA files, which were Microsoft's attempt at web-powered desktop applications back in the late 90s. These were HTML files rendered by Internet Explorer, with custom tags tacked on to set things like window size, border style and so on, and an unlocked runtime that could run JavaScript, and arbitrary JScript and Visual Basic Script commands. They're deprecated now in favor of Edge WebView2. HTAs were plaintext, so I just got to editing.

[@JusticeNDOU]

i remember this it was 1999 at night in a computer lab and then i suddely created a website that could be accessed by everyone in class

[@rowanwilliams7441]

Heard you out. Damn man... same! when i encountered putting up a webpage at 19yo in 1999 and when the hotdog editor didn't produce a workable page from the gui, I'd like bring up the source html and manually debug it. After that debug JS, CCS etc. Your saying you forewent all the better tools after hotdog to learning and writing html from scratch? Dude your either a galaxy brain, have all the time in the world to spare unnecessarily or your disingenuous

[@Raren789]

Can relate to being 10yo and learning html. Also did my website then but somehow I was able to find a free hosting service so it actually went live. Coolest thing is that the website was up for like 6 years. When one day I remembered about it, I inspected the source out of curiosity and, let's just say, it was a marvel of website rendering and what backflips the browser does to make it work. Unclosed, missing tags. Everything in random order. Yet somehow it worked. Man I miss those days 😂 It was also written in notepad

[@MrAB-fo7zk]

That's hilarious 🤣 ... I learned when i was around 8 or 9, luckily I had a cousin that taught me how to use FTP, back when ISPs used to give you "a free email and 5mb of ftp space!" ...

[@Apple_Beshy]

Ah the memories, My first Website is a compilation of the Pictures of the book I read, Anime that I watched and some Funnt stylish gif. Spinning images, audio, some embedded KZbin videos, And yep I also wonder back then how can I publish it into the web.

[@hatter1290]

When I was first learning to write code, I was truly baffled how the computer didn’t execute both branches of an if statement. Like they both exist. How did the computer stop one from executing? 🤦‍♂️😅

[@LeBopperoni]

Given what ED is an acronym for, this story couldve been so different

[@davep8221]

I'm surprised it didn't have a huge ad and link to your domain provider. This is often the default page for a domain set up by the provider. Then you need to pay for web services (or provide you own, which is a very long story). By the way, avoid godaddy at all costs. Always call a company's tech support line before doing business with them.

[@WoWUndad]

In 2nd grade 2002 i was using the microsoft word doc>html converter, then in myspace days i suppose i learned a bunch of html. Now im a senior react/threejs 3d web mmorpg developer

[@Danyiaha]

I remember at 12/13 setting up a linux server and setting up a simple html file as a website, i bought a domain and everything. Via a tutorial. And i felt like a genius. Anyways now i am actually trying to learn a programming language at 15 and hopefully i can do well with it and succeed, hopefully im not too late to learn.

[@chrisalex82]

That so cool lmfao :]

[@annieannamoore6011]

I remember when I was 10 we had this website for kids where you could build your own sort of website from templates and you could also paste scripts in there. I had this "virtual city" website and there was this script for snowflakes I really liked but it had this annoying ad banner to the site I copied it from (lol), so I found the banner part in the script and removed it and it worked. I was sure I am sort of a hacker or something lol 😂😂😂

[@savagesarethebest7251]

Well, I actually figured out how to upload my page to a Swedish variant of GeoCities when I was 7 in, 1997. I can still remember the sound of the modem when it was calling onto the internet.

[@gtamy5544]

oh man, in early 00s I wanted to build similar website to google by inspecting source code of the html, my heart was broken when I realized there is more than adding element to html to make a search engine 😂. What was cool about those times that most of the web was replicable by simply copying and pasting source code from html pages

[@henriquematias1986]

LOL GOOD FTP DAYS! I remember called my auntie to ask the difference between sending email and using a website and if i had to type the email on internet explorer address bar

[@Tully96]

Spent 4 days trying to call a function with a number value as a result with another function. Little did i know, the parentheses for the function i was calling were missing. Re wrote the code like 30 times. Figured it out yesterday.

[@kaas99]

This is hilarious 😂

[@aidanwelch4763]

I wanted to make Minecraft mods when I was 9 years old. I looked up how to make Minecraft mods, and I started learning JS on CodeAcademy lol. I still write JS fortunately or not

[@dumbidiot1119]

When I was around 10 I learned batch bc that was all I was able to use. Don’t remember much about it but I loved making the matrix code thing with a bunch of %random%s in a loop

[@fascinatingWol]

😂😂 This reminds me of my first backend (PHP) project. Did all the auth and data storage in the project file because I didn't know how databases worked.

[@Jplaysterraria]

When I was around 6y.o. I thought the floppy disks' contents depended on what was written on them, so I would write on them game names and put them in the computer. I think one of them had a Mario clone so I felt validated 😂

[@mikerope5785]

everyone thought they were original with the "men at work" sign, and everyone's page was black background with luminous green Comic Sans MS text.

[@nearemus]

So cute… ❤ The pure innocence of an young curious boy. I feel you, I found myself in similar places throughout my life. I subbed btw, cheers!

[@kevinoudelet]

Conglaturations!

[@eklipon1678]

When I was like 7-8 I thought if you write the name of a game on an empty CD it would become the game. So I got an empty CD and I wrote the name of a game I wanted to play. I was disappointed to say the least. Not one of my smartest eras.

[@evandickinson3254]

For those looking to publish websites, to actually publish it you’ll need to contact a website hosting service, I think you could have your own server in your house but outside hosting is quickest