One Year Anniversary

Guess what it is.

It was yesterday that was the one year anniversary of my domain, www.themadcomputer.com.

Evolution of TheMadComputer and the Website

I don't know which year I was introduced to HTML. It must have been 2006 or 2007? I have no clue, but I remember I learned some very basic HTML tags. I used to know only how to create basic HTML pages with text, buttons, inputs, the font tag, the "b" tag, the "i" tag, the "u" tag, and inline JavaScript. Oh, yeah, and probably the "img" tag.

And I used a basic Windows XP computer.

The only JavaScript I knew was how to create an alert box inline. This is what some of my coding could have looked like (yes, I used "onClick" but now I use "onclick"):

<button onClick="alert('This is text')">Click me!</button>

Then eventually I also learned "confirm()" and "prompt()", but they were still all inline.

I also didn't know any XHTML. I didn't know about declarations. Yeah, I was a beginner back then.

But things changed. At one point I was introduced to W3Schools.com (an online developer website where you can learn many programming languages). I learned about the <script> tag. I learned about other tags. Eventually, I learned about functions.

I even made video games as the years passed.

At one point in 2010, I completely switched over to Macs.

Finally, in October 2010, I came up with the name "TheMadComputer" and started a private blog for it. I had only a couple of people I knew that followed it. (Google Sites could have been an option, if only it supported JavaScript.)

Then, as time passed, I stopped working on that blog, and I kept making other video games and giving them a signature name, TheMadComputer.

The months passed. In February 2011, I got to host a small developer website on some domain. But I doubt I got any visitors.

Then it all changed a year ago from yesterday (March 9).

I got a domain, themadcomputer.com, and put up some video games and stuff on the website.

I went through a lot of work over the months to make it what it looks like today.

So now you know how it all started.