Anybody have any good stories? I'll present a little bit of my past... I started off as a wee lad who was always on the computer. When I was about 13 years old, I taught myself basic HTML, and made a kick ass Pokemon site. This baby had an orange background, frames (back when they were in style), and some pictures/links. I remember going to a bookstore and I was looking at the HTML books and some guy in the same section was like "You know HTML?", and I was like "Yeah a little bit." He then says to me "You stick with it, and you'll go far one day." Yeah sounds straight out of a movie but that's how it was. I just lost interest (my best guess is that it was because I was 13 ), and stopped fooling with HTML. I dabbled a little when I was 16 with making a fitness site, but never really stuck with anything. Then about a month ago I got the genius idea for making a Myspace site, because of course there's only like 2 of them out there so mine would do awesome [/sarcasm]. I stumbled upon DP and learned many many things and met some great people. It's now been about a month, and I own two sites (none of which are Myspace oriented), and I've made about $500-600 so far and the sites are all just starting up. So I'm excited for the future. So what's your story?
Had no choice, got hurt at work, work refused to pay medical bills or workmans comp. Had an operation, was laid up unable to work but had a computer. 10-11 years later I'm still here
Back in January 1996 I got on da internet and discovered there were no good Nintendo sites for tips and codes, so I started one on June 13th 1996. I sarted at the pathetic geocities service! *gags* Then got a domain less than a year later. 10-11 years later I'm still here
I can't remember, but i'll think about it. it's strange, it would be normal if i would have been a webmaster for 30 years, but i'm only for one oh, started to remember. i was doing some businesses on the internet, like exchanging money from different ecurrencies, doing web design, programming, web development and i got into a nice business once that earned me a few hundred bucks ( much for me then ) and i got a domain with my nick ( sandossu.com ) then i heard about seo and tried to optimize it a bit. then i created a forum and started to learn about seo, affiliate websites and all this stuff. oh and sandossu.com wasn't my first website, it was the 10th i think, but the first were crap ( ptr/ptc/autosurf like )
I was selling some crappy domain names, and someone has shown me how to put pages on the ones that nobody wanted
Lessee... Had my own site on geocities back in 96, but didn't take design seriously until 98 when the ISP I worked for started having issues with their designer. Since I didn't have as much SysAdmin experience as the other 2 techs, I was elected to make the site changes. Figured out I liked it, and my next job was for a web host, where I was both SysAdmin and web developer.
Was playing some games online and thought the graphics were crappy so I started learning adobe photoshop after school. Then I wanted to learn how to put it on a page so i actually borrowed about 14 books from the library on CGI HTML XHTML DHTML CSS. My mom can vouch for me Then I kept a notebook. I started doing this at 11. My major accomplishment that got me staying in this field was when I made a paid posting company for my mother. We both ran it and made over $500 USD a month which was a big deal to a low income family with one parent to support the family. Then when we felt the market was going down we sold the company at $800. We knew we could get more we were just impatient.
I was a member of a videogame forum back in the late 90's. I really liked the environment and feel of online communities and then decided to move into it myself. My first site is still online and is a PR5 currently. Since then I've gotten into PHP quite a bit as well as vBulletin "hacking." I have filed as a corporation, and have several "assets" to my company. I have also done some insane things with vBulletin on 6 forums that I run. Right now I run forums almost exclusively, but I have a few websites that I run, as well as a few ideas I have been tossing around for new sites.
hmm well it was the month of May 05, i met a guy on chat who was already a web developer and coz of him i entered this field and enjoying this business and now want to be successfull in this field.
Thanks my mother and I are currently focusing on creating our enterprise and buying cheap domains. Then we develop them and get them to gain PR. Sell them back for xxx range usually . We're at an edge right now because I'm learning PHP to make a CMS and other useful PHP tools.
hm i played quake(1) with the team fortess mod on a my amiga (50MHz 68060, more than 40MB ram, 4MB gfx card, was enought for a rockin 320x240pixel 3d world ) in 97 or so. but i havent done much surfing those days just because i already had to pay ~100/month for my online time (pay per minute). my provider kicked me later because i used more than 300MB/month so they lost money on me
I'm an avid reader and bookbuyer and someday got tired of buying books I already had in my collection. The day I saw my favorite bookstore had a computer with internet connection I decided to put my books online. A great way to check if I already owned a book before buying. So...I started by buying a book about HTML and developped my first site. In fact it is still online at : http://users.skynet.be/sky78329/ (please don't laugh ) Now, 3 years later you can see the result in my sig...
Well i got my first touch with internet in 99 i was young and start with haking but olso whanted to make my own site started learning html , a litlle php puted a pathetic site online (on a free hosting account) for 3 years i mainly did "hacking" but afther i had some problems with the police i started freelancing this year started olso my own sites becouse i whant a higher income and from more places afther 7 years i'm here going to he top and building my empire That's all