I first came in contact with HTML in the fall of 1994, during a press meeting. But it was not until the spring of 1995 I actually started learning and writing HTML. One of my first projects was to create the first web page for the publication where I worked, Computer Sweden. That page is of course long gone, but it was a simple gray page with a logo at the top and a series of links to the articles below, with the newest article on top. But it worked, and we were among the first publications in Sweden to have a web presence.
I also wrote a Word macro to publish articles to the website. I modified some code I had created two years earlier to format articles using QuarkXpress control codes and send them to the desk editors. It was fairly easy to modify the code to also generate HTML. After converting the article to HTML, it uploaded the resulting HTML file to the web server, retrieved the homepage, updated it with a new link and sent it back to the server. This was all done in Word, using one single button.

I also created my own personal website around the same time, using it a a tool to learn more and experiment with new techniques. Here you can see what the site looked like in December 1996. The missing images were actually on the site, but they have not been stored by the archive. For all you newcomers to the web, this is how websites used to look back in the dawn of the World Wide Web.

I actually have some content on this site that can be tracked back to that first website. The pictures and the logo on my page about diving in the Red Sea were published on that site, as well as some of the info on the page about Single Malt Whisky (that page was added to the site in 1996).