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While at UCSD, I was introduced to the world of HTML version 4.0. Back in that time, around the year 2000, I began my coding for web content with something that looked similar to:

HTML 4.0 example:
<center>
 <table width="400px">
  <tr>
   <td>
    <p><font face="arial" size="2" color="white">Here is some white text in Arial font at a 12 pixel size.</font></p>
   </td>
  </tr>
 </table>
</center>

Granted at the time I was being educated through the Art Department (specifically ICAM Department), which tended teach a less-technical and more ‘what ever means necessary’ method of programming. So HTML basics were all I knew.

Little did I know that at that time the W3C had issued the new and ever more elegant XHTML. It wasn’t until the end of my undergraduate education that I had discovered how archaic HTML 4.0 had become.

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