Preserved Topic: How long have you been doing this? (Page 1 of 1)

ok people.. what is your story? How did you get into this design world? How long? I want to know! hehehe

web design: 5 yrs
logo and type design: 3yrs
graphic design: 3yrs

been making web sites since i was eleven...weird...

netmosisdotcalm n. - from latin netmosisusdotuscalmus - fuck it all.

Played with Ps and code for last 13 months.
Art & graphics, way too many years.

automotive designing 16 yrs
ps 2.5 years
html 2 years
smoking 20 years
drinking 18 years
breathing 36 years
web design - still trying
~Vp~

computer since dos-based 8086 w/10MB HD, 512 KB ram and cga adapter (1984?)
site construction 4 yrs
html 4 years
js 4 mos
css 5 mos
ps 3 years
walking upright
40 000 years



[This message has been edited by Allewyn (edited 03-10-2001).]

I'm gonna have to go with Vp's "still trying" on all that...
'cept breathin', got that down.

Doing what?

Web Design?

Oh, never got into that...too busy with the cocaine and prostitutes.

I'm gonna try one of these days. Got the dank action set? from Weaaaaadah, and Invested in all the eye candy and kpt that I could get so I r0x0r like the hardcore fokes in heah.

Boo yah.

Graphic Design? About 35, 36 years. I quit when Andy stole my Campbell's stuff though.

computers 11 yrs
drawing / graphics 9 yrs (hail paintbrush!)
PS 2 yrs
drinking 5 yrs
breathing 16 yrs (17 from the 10th of march)
websites 3 yrs

ill dwelll a little more on HOW i got into the biz.
one of my last years of school, i had to make a website for as assessment.
i did. it looked grotesque, took about 3 hours to fully load, but i was soooo damned proud! (got 98% for it too!)
it had applets, mouseovers, pictures, text effects, a guestbook, a movie, sound, home made graphics, and it was a great learning tool.
i loved doing it so much, ive been interested ever since.
then, when i was sent to a company for industry experience in my uni IT course, i did web dev there too. liked it so much, ive been a paid worker ever since, and spending lotsa time at the 'sylum.
so i would say that my 'paid' web design/development has been going for about 9 months, but interest has been about double that.

Man.. I got lots of catching up to do...3 weeks in Photoshop, 3 weeks in HTML and 3 weeks in designing world. I will get better tho.. one of these years. So far I have to clue about it but soon the time will come for the old mighty ducatti! he

Ooh, let's see, going by start years where the math gets depressing

Programming: 1975 (Hewlett Packard 2000 mainframe!)
Networking: Same. (120 baud acoustical modems!)
Hacking/cracking: Same same. (heh.)
Art: 40+ years
Computer Graphics: 1983 (Atair 800xl game graphics. Pixels, drawn on graph paper to start!)
Industrial Design: 1982.
Graphic Design: About the same.
Photoshop: 1989-90 or so? Photoshop 2.01
BBS etc: ~1984, then a big gap, then again in early 90's.
Internet: 1992-1993.
(Getting paid for)Web Design: 1994.

I had several big gaps in the 80's when I did no computer stuff at all, period. (Swore off the damn things several times, they interfered with my real love, *art*) By the time the 90's kicked in I was back into it in a big way, doing print design for the screen printing company I worked with, and drawing and printing my own comic books. God, this thread makes me feel old! Thanks Ducati, make the doc feel old now, heh.



Your pal, -doc-

computers : 10 yrs, PS : 3 yrs, graphics : 4 yrs and i still sucks !
js & dhtml : 2 yrs, css : 1 yr, asp: 1 yr, flash : 3 yrs, programming : 1 yr
internet+html & web design : 5 yrs and still learning, get paid for webdesignin' : 4 yrs
smoking : 6 yrs, drinking : 3 yrs, breathing : 21 yrs..

hehehe.. i wonder what would you do with all this information ducati ?
[edit] Hey mahjqa.. Happy Birthday and Sweet 17 !! LOL! [/edit]
cherrioo..

:: Ahh, well, sanity is always questionable :: I'm a normal person, I just be having crazy thoughts ::

[This message has been edited by CLyNn (edited 03-10-2001).]

it's 2001. i've been working with graphic design tools since 1994. neat.

Started playing with computers in general in late '94 or so. the first computer that i 'owned' was a Performa635CD.
First got interested in web design, and photoshop stuff, etc sometime in '95.
past 2 years i have been pretty much obsessed with UNIX.
And in late 2000 i started messing with database/php, more programming.

that's my story in 4 lines,

Man... I should never post this thread.. I feel like a puppy in here hehehe...

Jess... you been drinking since you were 15?? Holy shit! I thought I was bad. Right now.. I have my old good friend Jim Beam to my right and coca cola joined the party as well.. They get along good with some ice cubes =) happy happy me... wait.. it's saturday night.. what the fuck am I doing in here??

ok yeah..I got my first PC when aol 2.5 came out. Went over my buddies house and started to chat and got addicted many jobs later descovered that I really want to work with computers.. stil have the old good IBM Aptiva 166 sitting collecting dust.

Went for some MCSE classes after many no sleep nights, got a consulting job and now I am trying to do something on the side with web desingn and hosting..

[This message has been edited by Ducati (edited 03-10-2001).]

computer: since 286 with 16mhz and 40mb hd
webdesign: 2.5 years
photoshop: 1/2 year


All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

Art: 10 or 11 years
PSP: 6 years
PS: 3 years
HTML: 6 years
JavaScript: 3 years
Programming(Applications): 7 years (only the recent 2 years count though, VB <<shivers>> )
Programming Web: 3 years
Breathing: 19 years

ducati.. actually i've been drinking since i wuz 18 (mostly beer and vodka)..
but heck yeah.. i've been smoking since i wuz 15.. hey..don't get the wrong impression here..
i'm not a regular kind'of smoker until now.. i smoke when i feel i need nicotine in my blood..
no cigarettes for weeks is OK fer me.. but when i really need it.. i mean really really need nicotine..
i can finish up 10-20 butts of Dunhill a day.. i smoke ..but nothing else than Dunhill..
i know it's bad... but huhh.. *speechless* wonder why ? i leave that question fer u to figure that out.. [ i guess this post is out of the thread topic .. hehehe..] fer now.. nuff' said.fullstop.

Hm...computering since I was 4. Started out with a Mattel Intellivision (alright, I know you guys think THAT's not a comp, but those modules rocked!), over to C16/+4, C64, Amiga over to the almighty PC.
Homepage stuff you can't call design: 4 years
Graphics with PS: 3 years
Homepage stuff you can nearly call design: 2 years
Rambling around with no real sense: 1,5 minutes

-cheers-!
Flik

good gosh! the Doc started doing Computer Graphics the year i was born.... hmm.... i guess i am a youngin...



[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 03-10-2001).]

Hmmm... Let's see...

Drawing since schooldays - way too many years ago, hm... Been too busy for too many years to actually, really draw something (with traditional tools). I kinda miss the old times.

Photographing since I was 13...

Computers - since Apple II and CP/M-80 boxes back in high school ('79-'82). Bought my first own computer in 1984 (DEC Rainbow 100 with both MS-DOS and CP/M-80 and -86). Programming and stuff... Working as a pc support person for 10 years.

Graphic design since about '87 or something. Print ads, catalogues, club magazines etc.
Web stuff since '93. During the first years (quite a few of them...) can't really call it design - more like putting miscellaneous stuff together... Later (when I had a chance) I started to think about the appearance too...

Photoshop since '96 or '97.

Changed to a different kind of a job in January '98 and haven't done much with WWW since then. Now I have been relearning things almost from the scratch for about 4 months. Things tend to change in three years, you know...

Breathing and babbling incoherently for almost 38 years...


--jto

I've only been doing web design for about a year and a half and graphics for about 10 months... [I'm only 16!] but I've progressed fairly quickly. [Too much time spent at the computer I guess!]

.::YIKES::.
Some of you need to unplug or something, you've been doing this stuff long before I was born. Theres not to much for me to say. I'm not a professional, I just do this stuff for fun. I've always been really good with computers and have been interested in them. I've been into webdesign for probably close to 5 years now, but getting serious with it the last 2. I've been using Photoshop for about the last 2 years and still have much to learn. I've only been using other programs like Illustrator and Flash for about a year and a half. I'm not to sure what I want to do in life, but I'm pretty sure I don't wanna code. I like it more as a hobby, not a job. I masterbate constantly and never drink or smoke. My girlfriends hot, and I'm nice at hockey. Thats my story, take it or leave it.

Just outta curiousity, long before my time, CP/M-80 . What is it?

Got to playing with computers at age 9. Back in the TRS days when the keyboard and monitors were one unit and floppies were 8 inches. Two years later I got my TRS-80 and taught myself BASIC in a few short months. All my friends had C64's and eventually C128's.

Then I upgraded to an Amiga 2000 when they first came out (1988?). Wow! Deluxe Paint 2, 3 and 4. Not to mention Digi-Paint and Digi-Photo. I even got a gen-lock and did some minor animations and sub-titling. One of the coolest things about that gen-lock was that I could use the video-in as a desktop background. And blue screening was awesome as well. That machine fully rocked!

Then support for Amigas plummeted in my area and I got a PC around 1994. I've been doing various web-sites on and off since then. Well, when HTML 2.0 was in full swing and the browser war was starting to really heat up.

I love PS to death, but sometimes I still miss Deluxe Paint 4. I also miss my gen-lock. ::sniff::

Jestah asked:
>Just outta curiousity, long before my time, CP/M-80 . What is it?

Somebody correct me if my mind fails me...
CP/M = Control Program for Microcomputers. 80 = Z80, Intel 8080 or similar 8-bit processor. Respectively 86 = Intel 8088 or 8086 (16-bit processor).

CP/M (R.I.P.) was the venerable predecessor of the megalomaniac boot loader that thought of itself as an operating system called MS-DOS. The best thing about CP/M was that it didn't even try to be anything else but a boot loader plus a few functional extensions. Whereas MS-DOS... well... you know the stuff that rolls out of the beast of Redmond...


--jto

PS- 6 mos.
Computers- 18 mos.
HTML- 5 mos.
smoking- 32 yrs.
carpentry-25 yrs
breathing- 46yrs
web design- I`m WORKING on it

I been using computers since I was 3, started to look at html 4 years ago, and just started up intensively on web and PS stuff in the past few months.

I'm 28 and have frequently used computers since age 13.

Photoshop since version 3.0, HTML since Mosaic 2.0, and PHP since version 4.0 (like last week?). Honest-to-god programming and serious art studies are my next step.

I started my professional web design job 6 months ago and I've done more learning since then than I have in the past 15 years.

Here's a question I'd like to see asked: How long have you known about DocOzone? Since '97 for me.

UUhhmm it would be since February of this year for me. Found this site on search engine ( I think from msn.com) and clicked on Ozones... I was amazed how cool this site looked so I went out... got a photoshop and now I am trying to get into webdesign ( actually my buddy and I getting into it on the side) we will see what will come up with that.

i joined ozoneasylum somewhere in Jan this year.. when i met Rick on IRC.. he keep on asking me to check this site out.. hehehe thanks to him i got to know this site and other inmates.. i learnt a LOT in just a few weeks frm this site. credits goes out to Rick and the others.. never going to leave this Site..and that's fer sure..

Your always welcome, Clynn.. I like to take others with me to this place, I like it.

How long? Hmmm.. let me take a little analisys.

Programming (HTML, Javascript, CGI) - 4 years.
Graphics design (Photoshop, Illustrator, *MS Paint*) - 4+ years
The Asylum - you can find it yourself.

I'm getting a little bored already. Plus, I'm learning Flash right now.

Any suggestion?

Water Colors - like 6 years.... after i found PS i kinda droped them tho.
PS - a few years. I started messin wit it at verson 4.
HTML - a little shorter than a few years
Editing Docs Dhtml - ditto.



folder fire!

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 03-12-2001).]

Well...

Computers since..83 I guess
Vic20 -> ZX Spectrum -> C64 ->Amiga 500 ->PC
with a bit of Apple II thrown in somewhere. And *shrugs with disgust* the "Swedish school computer -Compis".

Got into computers for real 'cause of Koala Painter on the C64.

Been doodling since childhood.
First time on the web -92. HTML since -96
PS off-and-on since 92 (what version was that back then?)
(Coding and webdesign is a hobby, but a good one since I hire consultants to do the real thing, and it makes me understand what they do)

Found Ozone -97
Painting (oil) since -95 (online gallery in the works..I'll post back )


oh..and I'm approaching 30 y.o. with stellar speed it seems


<e>BTW Happy birthday a couple of days late, Mahjqa!!</e>

-nimraw
If you can't convince, confuse!




[This message has been edited by Nimraw (edited 03-13-2001).]

OK, let me jump into the fray here...

PS 10 months. I used PSP for about 5 months before that. My first real experience with computer graphics and basically, graphics of any kind.

HTML/Design. My first web page was a cut and paste horror done about 5 years ago and is what really go me into computers. My first real web page on which I created everything was done last May.

Computers. Got my current machine almost 2 years ago. Its the only PC I or my family have ever owned. We had a Mac Classic once. We weren't exactly well-off so my first real experience with computers were the ones in the computer lab at K-State where I went to college.

Breathing: 26 years

Krets... you went to Kent State?

Kansas State