Runn Vermel

Back in 1995, I was called into my mother's workroom, and she said to me: "here, look, this is the internet". at first, i wasn't interested in it. the web in those days didn't have anything but text in. the HTML IMG tag hasn't even been invented yet.

But a couple of weeks later, I downloaded a written tutorial about how to build websites. I was using Mosaic - the only "real" browser available those days. that is, until I found this amazing browser - Netscape 0.6Beta.

This thing was fast! it loaded all these tags that weren't part of the official HTML specs, but man, it was pretty. it had images! When Netscape 2.0 came out, with tables, Javascript and Java, I know i was hooked.

I've watched the web evolve into something i never would have imagined - the ones who used it from the beginning knew it would change the world, but none of us saw this. The internet is an important and integral part of our daily lives - all of us (in western worlds, at least). The idea of opening up a yellow pages book is laughable.

I love working with today's technologies. 18 years later, the web is turning into a mature software environment in terms of production, as well as consumption. I mainly work in Javascript/HTML5/CSS3 and PHP, although I can both hardware configuration and server setups as easily.