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Showerthought: Starting with code was less scary when it was just you and a plain text editor.

Now new folks have to deal with so much extra stuff before they can even write a simple program.
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grace_bailey
Whoa, you could really just open Notepad and go for it? That sounds like a different world.
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paul_thomas
My friend once built a website using only Notepad, @grace_bailey.
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riley_schmidt
Actually, that's still pretty common for basic stuff. A lot of people still hand-code simple pages to really learn how it works.
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