How I became a web developer

I made my first website at the age of 14. Back then, I felt that the world needed to know about the team we had just formed. After all, we were going to revolutionize the software industry with our own software and games. Or at least, that’s what we thought. Being young and naive, we believed that it didn’t matter that we had just learned to program, spent most of our time in school or playing video games, and knew absolutely no one with any experience whatsoever. We had a dream, and so we began chasing it. By that time, the World Wide Web had already become ubiquitous. And since it felt like every cool and noteworthy company had a website, we thought we needed one too! I was genuinely interested in web development, so I immediately volunteered to build our website. I didn’t know a single thing about web development, but that didn’t bother me at all. I trusted that, given enough time, I could learn what I needed. To my amazement, it was incredibly easy to get started, to pick up…