I started learning web development around 1999. We got a coupon in the mail for one free day class at a just-opened New Horizons computer training center. I chose "HTML 4.0 for Windows 98" from the brochure at random because I didn't know what any of it meant. When my dad picked me up at the end of the day I told him, "I know what I want to do for a living." The next time we went to Borders I picked up a copy of Sam's Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 days with my paper route money and read it cover to cover in a week. We didn't have a computer with internet access at home, so I'd head to the library or use a spare computer at my dad's office and practice building pages with Notepad and keep my work with me on floppy disks.
The web and how we access it has changed a lot over the past two decades and I've had the pleasure of growing with it; from PHP and table-based layouts to full-stack Jav