When I was writing my first lines of code there was no distraction in form of social media apps and the technologies were pretty simple and accessible.
If you now aim to create a webpage which you say least resemble what you are used to seeing on the web, uploading an HTML to a popular free hosting sites is just not enough.
I would like my kids find their way to whatever they like to do. I am worried though that they will waste their time even worse than I did back in my days, because the web is more addictive and getting involved in creating it is much more difficult then ever before.