My first web site was made from phone (Samsung X100). I bought PHP script for one of services for that site and I started to learn PHP by readong sources, then books. After few (3-4) months I got first money (from adv.) and after 1.5 years parents bought me computer. Yeah, I was young ;) I started to work on my site from computer, after 6 months I made very popular service, left my job and after 1 year my income was $1000 per week, when average salary in russia was $300 per month. And after 8 years I'm still programmer ;)