Most of the things the hacker culture has built do their work out of sight, helping run factories and offices and
universities without any obvious impact on how non-hackers live. The Web is the one big exception, the huge shiny
hacker toy that even politicians admit is changing the world. For this reason alone (and a lot of other good ones as
well) you need to learn how to work the Web.
This doesn't just mean learning how to drive a browser (anyone can do that), but learning how to write HTML, the
Web's markup language. If you don't know how to program, writing HTML will teach you some mental habits that willhelp you learn. So build a home page.
But just having a home page isn't anywhere near good enough to make you a hacker. The Web is full of home pages.
Most of them are pointless, zero-content sludge -- very snazzy-looking sludge, mind you, but sludge all the same (for
more on this see The HTML Hell Page).
To be worthwhile, your page must have content -- it must be interesting and/or useful to other hackers. And that bringsus to the next topic...
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