I built my first website after I graduated university in 1998, using basic HTML. (Not even CSS!) On Geocities, of course. I knew a bit of Photoshop from my time designing ads at the Queen’s University Journal, but I don’t remember where I learned HTML. Probably from a boyfriend, and a nascent internet. 

(Note the printout of RGB codes in the image above. I found a bunch of HTML reference printouts in my bedroom closet at my parents’ house a while ago. Yes...