David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I'd get an error message that made no sense to me as a kid, either at six or seven or at 12.
And here I am sitting in front of a computer connected to the internet and I'm making text blink.
I'm making it larger.
I'm turning it into an H1 or an H2.
And these guys out here, we just did it for like an hour and a half.
And suddenly I go, oh, I can make things for the internet that someone in Germany can be able to access and see.
And I don't have to ask anyone for permission.
This is super cool.
I got to do more of this.
So I got into the internet.
I got into working with HTML.
And I still had all these friends from these demo parties.
And I started working with them on creating gaming websites.
I'd write about the video games.
I'd review them.
This was another good way of getting new video games was to walk down to some store and say, like, hey, I'm a journalist.
I'm like this 15-year-old kid.
And they're looking at me.
You're a journalist?
Yeah, can I borrow some games?