In the late 1990s when I first went online, I tried my hand at writing (which we call 'blogging' today) on my own website at GeoCities. Geocities was a site that allowed people to have free webspace in different neighborhoods. I don't rememeber what neighborhood I was in. It was fun because you didn't have to pay for domains or web hosting; just open an account and you had a presence online! But eventually Yahoo bought Geocities and it is now a piece of Internet history.
But I use to write different stuff (not very well) and tried to get my husband interested in doing so. He didn't really want to but did complain that there was literally no info on-line of his favorite musical artist, Art Garfunkel, of Simon & Garfunkel. Now some of you may be too young to recall them but they were very popular in the late 1960s, had a massive reunion Concert in Central Park in 1981 (500,000 in attendance) and reunited again in 2003. But their music is not going to be heard on the Top Ten today but it is still quality music and part of the history of many people's lives.
But I'm off on a tangent here. With the info my husband collected, I did a webpage on my GeoCities website about Art Garfunkel. Little by little we got email from Art Garfunkel fans who contributed their knowledge. Through a rather strange circumstances of events (detailed here on the site's Forum.) I became Art Garfunkel's WebSite Manager in 1998.
From there I decided to learn more about web design and eventually took on a few clients. The one issue though is I never really pursued it as a career. Thinking back I realize not too many people were doing websites in 1998 and I could have developed quite a business for myself. Yet I realize I'm not much of a salesperson who would have done well trying to sell my own skills. But I do the few sites I took on, and have a nice bunch of clients who keep returning for any updates, revisions so I'm happy with my small share of the webdesign business . WebDesignbyRenie
