Origin Story

Learning by breaking the browser

I started at 17 with View Source, downloaded Blogger themes, and a habit of changing one line at a time to see what broke. The web stopped being something I only used and became something I could understand, rebuild, and ship.

Hand-coded first pagesReverse-engineered Blogger themesLearned by breaking and rebuilding

C:\Users\Mohith> origin_story.exe

Booting up HTML & CSS. Realizing the browser is a canvas.

> first_landing_page.html … shipped

> blogger_theme.css … remixed

> inspect_element … curiosity_unlocked

Boot the machine to explore the first chapter.

After hours

Late-night TV

Six channels for screensavers, human versus computer Pong, old favorites, and a little static between stations.

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