[srdeveng]

My introduction to markup was the Geocities era HTML. I was in 3rd grade or so at the time.

Got access to my dad's Casio digital camera and took pictures of my friends and teachers and then swapped heads and bodies using Kidpix.

In computer lab, I'd set the start page on the few computers with internet to my Geocities page. It was a huge hit and the computer teacher didn't know whether to applaud or punish me for the work.

I got cut off from the 'internet computers' indefinately and played Organ trail everyday instead of doing the typing assignments since I was already proficient.

I think a large part of my comfort with code came from getting rid of the 'curly brace phobia'. I've attributed my comfort reading code regardless of language at an early age to this exposure to HTML markup.