encyclo - 1:16 pm on Sep 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

After university, I somehow managed to get a temporary job as a general dogsbody working shifts in the IT department at CERN [public.web.cern.ch] in Geneva.

For those who don't know, the web was invented at CERN, so as you can imagine, the web was (and is) everywhere there - and working the night-shift meant that I had very little actual work to do other than being present. But, I had a UNIX workstation, a shell account, a personal web space and a copy of Netscape 2, and so I delved in to find out just how this web thing worked.

Eight years later, and I'm still messing around building websites for fun and profit, and I still love the technology and everything with it.