Quote - > Quote - In the 80s I used to freelance web design

Didn't think there was much web in the 1980s. (Mosaic didn't come around until 1993, and Netscape arrived in 1995.)  Perhaps some text stuff readable by Gopher or Lynx, or various BBS/Telnet clients, but not full-blown HTML involving web-design as we know it today. That's a typo, right? :lol:

No it wasn't a typo, but I guess I was just typing faster then I was thinking and over summarised what I was trying to say so a quick history! I started creating character based graphics for radios in the early 80s -  I had a friend, a radio ham who used to have his commodore pet hooked up to his radio and used to transmit them around the world! (If any of you are old enough to remember what I'm talking about you'll know where I'm coming from) Trying to make a picture of a cat by using character was maddening but cool when you had done it (and squinted a bit). by the mid 80s the pet had died I became and apprentice, I had a cpc464 and played with creating layouts for BBS systems from characters through the late 80s (when I was still an apprentice and 900 baud modem was fast??), also played with the paint package on the cpc and had my first introduction to pascal programming, so you're absolutely right it wasn't technically web design as we know it when I started out down this path - although was when I played with my first company for stuff I could do outside of work hours. I still remember a fair amount of z80 assembler from this era and 68000 from when I moved onto my atari ST. With a machine like the cpc it was possible to code a game on your own that wasn't too bad, although the c64 had a far larger market - I just prefered the cpc.

Early 90s and my first PC (a viglen 286 IIRC) arrived, HTML and mosaic where like a dream come true when they arrived a year or two later!  I don't recall turning any real money from it until dreamweaver came along in the late 90s made some good money for a year or two and then moved to where I work now. so in so far as the freelance web design is true that would have been in the late 90s. Of course around 96 I also got my first copy of povray and then in 98ish my copy of bryce2 so all the spare time I had spent programming and studying got wasted with a return to making pretty pictures...

@Ray if it's the algorythmic sideof programming you prefer and find more interesting you might want consider studying some pure math or applied math. this is where the true beauty in your code will be coming from...

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