The first thing that came to mind when Elliot brought up HTML in the Week 2 tute was the 2 or 3 year period I spent honing the language to a fine art, without ever considering it may come in handy one day. This period refers to my early years of high school spent totally addicted to MySpace, but before I started thanking my 13 year old self for that surprising foresight I realised that every bit of knowledge I had gained about acquiring rainbow cursors that sprinkled fairy dust as you moved them across the screen had totally deserted me in the ensuing 8 years.

“Queen of MySpace” may or may not have been a term that was thrown around my year 7 cohort as I whispered magical proxy addresses to my classmates after our school wisely cottoned on and blocked the website. I was proud of my HTML, my fonts that flashed different colours in the early years and then the oh-so-cool minimalist approach I adopted towards the end. These days, influenced by the much less malleable Facebook I could barely insert a JPEG, let alone my once beloved GIFs.

As such, I highly enjoyed Week 2’s refresher on Hyper Text Mark-up Language, and can now:

Insert photos
Create links to other webpages/sections within the blog
Create a homepage
Upload videos

Maybe by next week I’ll even have my rainbow cursor back!!!