What got us (teens) involved?!?!

[-Alex-]

I first started a few years ago, heavily influenced by my uncle who is a web designer. After that I met a few friends from a previous gaming community and a few of them were into domaining as well. Obviously, the online life took off and has turned into a bunch of experimentation with a few semi-successful projects :hehe:

How did you guys get the ball rolling? (also lets attempt to keep this thread, and other going, this time lol!!!) :tri:

-Alex-

 

[SeanPreston]

Well, I don't do domaining, but I'm a Web Designer and PHP Programmer.

I think what first got me going was the chance of earning money, I started small things (that were stupid if I think back) with my mates at high school. My first real success was a Theme Park fan site, I think this was where I first started to like the web industry.

Sean

 

[samuelhr]

In 2003 I'd go to the local library with a group of friends from primary school, we all played runescape but I got really bored of it within a few hours, so I started looking for other things to do. I ended up messing around with wanadoo website builder, then in 2005 I finally had access to a computer at my home, so I started playing around with freewebs, ended up making a small games website.

For me it's never been about the money, I hate the idea that a website is for money and nothing else, therefore the only money I make is from selling / freelance, I don't plaster my own websites with shitty adsense blocks. I make my money through building websites for others or selling my own.

 

[-Alex-]

In 2003 I'd go to the local library with a group of friends from primary school, we all played runescape but I got really bored of it within a few hours, so I started looking for other things to do. I ended up messing around with wanadoo website builder, then in 2005 I finally had access to a computer at my home, so I started playing around with freewebs, ended up making a small games website.

For me it's never been about the money, I hate the idea that a website is for money and nothing else, therefore the only money I make is from selling / freelance, I don't plaster my own websites with shitty adsense blocks. I make my money through building websites for others or selling my own.

This interesting, cause I semi-started off doing that as well (same game)!

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And Sean, I think that was definately it as well—I wanted money :hehe: so that proved to be a big incentive.

 

[Archeyreece]

Last year around the end of Grade 8 i joined proboards and i saw how they were coding with javascript, to edit the boards. it looked fun to do, i tried to learn html/css, but failed. Now just 5 months ago i started learning again, im 1/4 through a tutorial in javascript. :D My friend told me about namepros.com and how i can get a domain from here using NP$ i didn put much effot in. then another friend was talking about domaining, and i thought it would be fun if i tried with a domain i wasnt using(clanscorpia.com) it's a really bad domain, im probably going to give it away :D

 

[snoopinc]

For me it was about 2005 when i first got a website on the internet. It was a piczo.com hosted website. I used piczo for about a year and in 2006 i realized with piczo you didn't have full control over your website. I wanted to explore HTML back then. So i decided to buy my first domain which was torrent related because that was when i first new about torrent sites and trackers. The host which i bought the domain from gave me a couple of months of free trial hosting.

The site was basically an IPB forum which was solely for torrents to be posted. Now to this day i have ventured into the web hosting and domain business. Back in 2005 i never had a clue how web servers, hosting and domains worked. Now i do understand how all the above works. I have learned Linux from mostly an SSH environment.

 

[-Alex-]

That reminds me. What really got me started was w3schools.com, thats where I learned all of my basic languages and stuff, I reccomend it for anybody who is still going through that process! =D

I have to though, snoopinc, one of my first websites was a torrent related one as well :p

-Alex-

 

[Ookie]

About 2007 I got interested and I made a proboard for my mum... then I played around with proboards and made a couple of my own. Then I got interested in web dev and started learning coding. Then I found out about Namepros from PBS and now I'm on here doing web design. :D

 

[CyXic]

I started learned HTML and CSS back in 2005 and then bought a domain and built a gaming site in August 2005. I've been buying domains, coding and designing sites, programming, etc. since then. Curiosity of how the internet and computers in general work got me interested.

 

[ExpressDomains]

About one or two months ago I came across it randomly on eBay of all places. Now i sell like 40 or 50 domains a week on ebay and am making money and I'm only 15. Making money was obviously the main motivation and i didnt mind doing it

 

[Barrucadu]

I've always found computers and networks fascinating, how you can get something from the other side of the world in a minute (and then complain about the speed!). The interest in the web grew from that.

 

[scweb]

I used to play a ton of MMOs and I though I could make one of these. That got me into coding. Then one thing led to another and I got into web design and web devolpement.

 

[-Alex-]

I used to play a ton of MMOs and I though I could make one of these. That got me into coding. Then one thing led to another and I got into web design and web devolpement.

yup, same here. I started out with playing Runescape, joining a gaming community about it, then some of those people got into hacking (along with me).. etc... and now im here =D

 

[SeanPreston]

yup, same here. I started out with playing Runescape, joining a gaming community about it, then some of those people got into hacking (along with me).. etc... and now im here =D

Ouch, Don't offend Alex, he will hack your Runescape account....lol


only j/king, I used to play Runescape aswell in fact ( a looooooong time ago) and I created a small community, was crap but still a good learning experiance.

Sean