[aj700]

Yeah, I just assume that today's 23-year-olds (or 13-year-olds) should all know this, and had the same experience as me, using notepad.exe to alter/test some html, which was grabbed from a "CD-ROM", that came with a "magazine", with something like "Netscape 1.0" (for Win 3.1) on it, in late 1994! What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

[andrewingram]

That was exactly my experience, I taught myself HTML this way before I had even used the internet.

[nationcrafting]

Haha, I still edit some of my HTML in TextEdit or some simple txt editor... It just opens so much quicker than Dreamweaver...

[D9u]

I taught myself beginning HTML/XHTML/PHP using Vieka Wordpad on a Samsung SGH-i607. 3G was my only connection to the net at the time.

I never did use an IDE until lately, but Geany isn't much of an IDE compared to some other choices.