Growing up in the 90s, I watched my father work with computers in the US Air Force. In 2001 he gave my brothers and I an HTML book and stated that "With this and Notepad you can write your own websites". We proceeded to tear that book apart and each of us had a web site on our Windows 98 SE computers that were networked together and thus had our sites linked together. Nothing spectacular but it was fun.
I wish now that I had spent more time on the javascript side of the book as I am still pretty weak with JS.