Adolescence

My school career was never something special. Always above average, nothing more or less. One thing I did realize was that whether I work my ass off or slack, the grades remained the same. I didn’t conform much to groups, I could more or less be with everyone.

In 6th grade, I started learning HTML. It was a fun time, the teacher was a former employee of IBM and was great, but he soon left and the new teacher taught us even better stuff. Like how to control the cursor using a mouse, how to click the mouse buttons and how to find, locate and utilize the “Start” menu. Before the 6th grade, I dared not touch the computer fearing I would break it or infest it with virus. Some teachers sure were (and still are) incompetent.

I remember being really hyped with all the new HTML stuff and was amazed by marquee and frames. Frames were high-tech back then. Soon enough I created my first web site; Pokémon Forever. It used frames. An instance I remember particularly was once that I copied a walkthrough from another Pokémon site and posted it on my own, I then submitted it to the owner of a very popular Pokémon site - and he featured it. I learned something about competence, and the absence of a method to detect a deficiency of it.