Starting early helps—I bumbled into the web in October 1993 when a colleague handed me a floppy disk (remember those) labeled “Mosaic”. My life was never the same. By November I had set up a web server on a Mac SE/30, read the NCSA tutorial on HTML, and thought it was a much better and interesting way to create hypermedia.
I created the Writing HTML tutorial for a workshop in 1994 (updated and added along the way) and still receive several emails a week world wide from people who still get something out of it (related goal: re-write it for CSS / XHTML).
From static HTML I learned first perl and then PHP / mySQL which powers all of my work now.
But blogging has opened many more doors than any other activity, both in learning web things and connectiing with others. CogDogBlog is now my journal, outlet, and venting space for projects and net technologies.
Oh, I have no formal background- my degrees are in Geology, and everything technical I have learned form the net, peeking at code, and banging my head against the wall.
