Neopets taught me HTML. I might have never become a developer without it. It’s crazy to think that letting kids shove some raw HTML into a text box could change lives. I bet MySpace has similar stories.
Same. Learning HTML for Neopets sites directly led me to my current job as a programmer.
Same!!
Same! I remember there being guild websites or something which led me to learning HTML/CSS in 6th/7th grade! This and Minecraft were huge influences on me.
Me too. To this day, I love finding Neopets-compatible HTML and CSS tricks to use on petpages. For a while, I had a fully functional chess game running on a petpage. It would play against you using stockfish and everything. But then browsers stopped sending the full path in image request referer [sic] fields, and the jig was up.
I wonder what the equivalent is today. How do kids start hacking away at HTML (or does anyone learn HTML now?) by being tricked in by games or social media?
Same story here. I remember learning html through w3schools for my neopets webstore
Raises hand Yup. It was LiveJournal for me and my friends.