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QBasic was fun, but it was isolated. It lived on my machine, running in an emulator. I wanted to build things other people could see.

That's when I found HTML.

The idea that a simple text file could be opened in a browser and rendered as a structured page with links was mind-blowing. I remember writing:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My First Website</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Welcome to My Corner of the Net</h1>
    <p>This is live (well, on my local drive)!</p>
  </body>
</html>

The web was open. Anyone with a browser could view my creations. In this episode, I talk about the magic of the early web and how CSS styling took me from text pages to layouts.

The Turn: Stepping Into the Web