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Man, if I had known that badge existed I would've stuck it everywhere. I think one of the reasons I'm so confident with web stuff nowadays is that for the first 3 or 4 years I had literally no idea there were text editors other than Notepad. I remember trying to put together a simple web site on Mac OS X, which frustrated me greatly because I had no idea where to find a plain text editor (for some reason I never found the toggle in TextEdit.app, let alone opened the terminal to run Vim).

Off topic, but I had a fun exchange with my friend the other day. I'm a web developer - he had recently taken a free (paid for by EI) course in web development.

"Can I just borrow your computer for a sec? I noticed a bug on one of my sites, just need to fix it real quick."

"You won't be able to, I don't have Dreamweaver or Filezilla installed."

"Oh...ok."

Proceeds to download putty on the spot and fix my site with vim

Well, now we have those social sharing buttons. Just as messy and pointless

'Made with Notepad' signs intimidated this FrontPage warrior with copapasta-javascript-animation skillz.