Copying HTML

I still laugh when I think about my very first HTML page.

It wasn't really mine.

One of my teammates had already built a landing page.

I copied the entire HTML file.

Then I started deleting things.

Changing text.

Removing sections.

Moving pieces around.

At that time, I didn't even know how to create a proper HTML document from scratch.

There wasn't a grand learning strategy behind it.

I simply wanted something on my screen that looked like a webpage.

Looking back, it wasn't elegant.

But it was honest.

Every unfamiliar tag became a small mystery.

Why were there so many <div> elements?

Why did changing one class suddenly move half the page?

Why did everything break when I deleted one line?