@b0rk @ramsey @janl it was easier then also because it was essentially just simple HTML, maybe a dash of CSS and only if you were fancy, some JS. All those things were smaller in scope than today. On the server side it was just PHP and some kind of SQL database. All so much more grokkable than the fullest of the full stacks that folks deal with today. I think that modern webdev is dizzying in its complexity; it's very intimidating compared to what it once was. Much harder to get started today!