[edavis]

Worked through a "teach yourself HTML" tutorial on AOL. This must have been early 2000s. I remember being fascinated from the get-go. The concept that this was how you build web pages was just incredible to me.

To practice, I built all kinds of toy sites. Fan pages for bands I liked. Homepages for myself. I would take a site and try to duplicate it. Anything.

Then I learned about servers and hosting so other people could view my sites.

Eventually I picked up PHP which really opened my eyes to what could be done with websites.

Somehow or another I found Python. Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into Python" made the language click in a way other tutorials never did.

Found Django shortly thereafter (2007-ish) and the rest is history.