Hello World!

In 2000 I was a freshman at the most beautiful university campus in the world, UCT (The University of Cape Town). I was fresh out of school and extremely naive. Strange as it maybe, I had a crush on Hydraulics from a young age, this got me into all sorts of compromising situations.

When I got to varsity, IT was all over. The South African bubble was at its peak. Everybody wanted to be a programmer, and they were enrolling in droves. New institutions sprung up over night and most disappeared just as they had appeared.

The Transition

Towards the end of September, my class was introduced to the world of code and coders. It was a simple QBasic program that sounded like a police siren. That was the last coding class that I ever attended, over the next coming months and years, I got hooked to the PC. I found it fascinating, we started building web pages at Geocities, Brinkster, Angelfire and it felt good. We had not idea how the web worked, what drove it or where it was headed.

The turning point was almost a fluke; a friend accidentally clicked the "view source" IE menu and out came the little green men. Eureka! We had struck gold. It was big, we were excited about stuff.

This discovery has played a big role; I am where I am because of that defining moment. The people I know now, the fights I have had and the brain cells I have slaughter all stem from that moment.

Beep!