Coralie Mercier (W3C)Apr 4, 2023

Has the #web changed your life? In what way(s)?
Are there features that are particularly life-saving, or very convenient to you? (e.g., WebRTC for live videoconferencing, or Web Payments API for ecommerce, etc.)

I want to write a @w3c article at the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the release of the World Wide Web into the public domain, for general use and at no cost, by CERN on 30 April 1993.

Any insight from the fediverse to complement our own research is welcome! Thanks in advance! <3

Yes, the Web has changed my life
94.6%
No, sorry. The World Wide What?
1.7%
Just show me the results
3.7%
Poll ended at .
Show threadDan Jones

I started programming around ten years old on my family's Commodore 64. No network connection or anything like that. I just made silly games.

A couple years later when we upgraded, and got the Internet in our home, it changed everything for me. Now my silly little creations could be something I could share with others, without having to put it on a floppy disk first.

It was a fun thing to twiddle around with, and looking at the source for other webpages, I learned how to build them myself.

I went to college to study theater and become an actor, but after college, when roles weren't coming in, my fun little hobby became my job, and then my career, which has lasted twenty years now.

Without that time as a twelve-year-old kid, playing around on Prodigy, I don't know how I would support my wife and children now.

@koalie @w3c

Apr 4, 2023 at 3:59pmWeb
Show threadPixelJonesApr 5, 2023
@danjones000 @koalie @w3c
C64 80's kids for the win. My story is similar. Got my first job (sans degree) b/c I could sling 6502 code on the C64, pivoted to PCs then Windows then client-server then the Web. Still coding.