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When I was a kid that was very much a hobby!

I’d save whole websites and play with their code (back then that meant html2/3 and early css and Javascript, but still). It was enticing after playing with terminal views for years before that. Kids like colourful things, what can I say.

I used to do that in the c64. Had a freeze cartridge. Click the button and jump into the monitor and cute the assembly language.... Same difference

Yeah, so many of us got into the trade that way, and in turn developed it into what it became. I’m not proud of my animated GIF phase. Since websites are inscrutable and often irrelevant to the cutting edge internet experience now, it makes me wonder what welcoming medium the kids are going to find that solidifies it as the next creative platform that industries are built on.