Too Long; Didn't Read
When I was around nine or ten years old, I discovered Microsoft FrontPage on my computer and my mind was blown. Who knew literally anyone could build their own website? (Answer: Everyone. I could have Google’d that at any point, but you don’t know what you don’t know.) I immediately got to work tinkering and learning. FrontPage was quickly replaced by Notepad, which was replaced by Notepad++. I bought a book on CSS and one on AJAX and read them cover to cover on a road trip. Unfortunately, I never got anything off the ground, but I did take my natural curiosity and attention to detail and applied them to something that would eventually become my vocation.