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ell, hmmmm. Let's
see here. I'd been screwing around with Bulletin Boards, the immediate
forerunner of today's Internet for several years, and when the Web came
along, I was curious about it, but didn''t know quite what to do. Got
myself an ISP and decided to put up a page (seeing as how the ISP gave
you a free site as part of its monthly deal) Slight drawback: I didn't
have the slightest idea of how to do it. I had met a webmaster whose
credentials were impeccable at a meeting held by an old friend of mine.
When I called up this old friend, she told me (kind of snottily, I might
say), "He only does pages for corporations and he charges $2000." Of
course that got my back up, and now strongly motivated by the Spirit
of "Oh Yeah?", I learned how to program a Page. It took about a week
to learn the basics from books and some excellent Pages here on the
Web, and after all kinds of mind-numbing experiments and terrifying
mistakes, I finally got to the point where I could put a Page together.
Of course the first thing you learn is that the Net is ever-changing,
as you might expect with something so closely married to its technology.
This was back maybe three years ago, and the Internet has expanded tremendously
(almost unbelievable that it didn't exist for the public until 1993!)
Back then, we were all writing code by hand, still not a bad thing to
learn if you want to get involved in this nonsense, but now the HTML
standards have expanded, faster and faster connections are coming on
line, and the tools! Today's HTML programs are so sophisticated and
capable of so much it's almost magic. You never stop learning new stuff.
Leastways, you'd better not.
echnology:
no matter how complex it becomes, we can always find something silly
to do with it.
