I built my first one in 1995, so yeah, it was very much teach-yourself, but the good news was that, back then, view-source would give you everything you needed to know about how any given page worked, so you could learn a LOT by finding sites you liked and figuring out how they worked.
By 1997, I was working in a consultancy doing custom sites and early Internet-style applications, which was back then insanely lucrative. Like, we pitched $moviecompany a web site for $1,000,000, and got the deal (it involved DB integration and more active behavior, etc, all of which was novel at the time).
By 1997, I was working in a consultancy doing custom sites and early Internet-style applications, which was back then insanely lucrative. Like, we pitched $moviecompany a web site for $1,000,000, and got the deal (it involved DB integration and more active behavior, etc, all of which was novel at the time).