It was 1995, and I decided I wanted to learn how to create the amazing graphics that I would see on some sites that I would browse. Someone told me, "just look at the site's code, and when you think you're startling to understand it, play around with the code, you'll learn better than anybody could ever teach you". And so I did just that. By the time I was eighteen, I was able to make any design that a client would ask for, and I even picked up HTML4 and CSS2 perfectly. Too bad about two years later, I had to learn all the new features and how to write all these new standards the proper way.
It took me some time, but now I am able to write beautiful code. 😮