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It's Scooby Doo's birthday! I owe my programming career to that mangy mutt.

In college, I decided I wanted to learn about HTML, so I picked a topic and ran with it.

Here's an early version from 1997 - a geocities page. I can't tell you how fun it was to build this, and the community that was created around the site.

I had monthly contests, people would mail me recipes, costume photos, and I even had writers from the shows sign the guestbook.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970413070705/http://www8.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/1145/

#ScoobyDoo

Box464 (Not Hipster Santa)

@box464@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

This let to my first job in the tech industry working at a kid's educational software company.

I learned how to edit audio, video, images, program CGI, linux, used the terminal for the first time, and of course HTML. All while just having fun and not thinking about it being work of any kind.

In 1997, I had no idea what `git` was or a change log. But there I was creating one for myself. lol.

Box464 (Not Hipster Santa)

@box464@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

@span slamma It was a very fun time. I need to write more about it, too. I actually got in trouble for building this site and got called into the IT offices at Clemson University where they grilled me on what I was doing and how, as they weren't aware of Trumpet Winsock at the time. (I was a psych major, not CS). Then they tried to get me to switch to the CS program.

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