About me

March 11, 2019

Hello!
My name is Bobby Avoine, and I am a student in web development.

As a kid that grew up in the 90s, I wasn't born with my fingers on a keyboard, but I made sure to grow up with one. I can remember the evening it happened, it was a cold day of 1996, my step-father was excited to show me his latest addition to our family: an internet line. I had no idea what the internet was, but soon he had me sit in front of the computer and told me to write down something that I liked in that little box.

It doesn't take much to amaze a child, and that little box proved it once again. From the edge of my seat, I was a surfer riding the waves of the internet. I couldn't wrap my head around how amazing it was to write Dragon Ball in a box, then press search, and be bombarded with pictures of what I liked the most.

But then it wasn't just pictures, it was videos, musics (mainly midi files), forums to talk Dragon Ball with other fans. To a kid, it was a world to explore, and that's what I did, whenever my mom wasn't on the phone.

At the age of 8, I started to toy with making my own website about Dragon Ball. Then, at 10, I made my very first actual website to be shown to the world. That one was about Pokémon, and as anyone could have guessed, it was an amazing website! Alright... it wasn't great at all. But hey, without it, I wouldn't be here.

Well, of course I'd be here, but I wouldn't be here.

Anyway, ever since, I pretty much always played around with code. I worked in the field for a bit, made some money with it, helped friends, had a few projects. I never did seem to get tired of it, and 22 years later, I still haven't.

After quitting college due to stuff out of my control, like World of Warcraft, and, well, okay, it was in my control but I was out of control. It happens.
I wasn't a perfect 18 years old guy, but on the flip side, I was a pretty damn good level 60 rogue. Can't write that on a resume, can I?

I always wanted to go back to school but always lacked the courage. As the years went by, my friends would get their degrees, get homes, some marriages there and there... and me working nights at a convenience store, with his only light at the end of the tunnel being his daydreaming. Ah! Would it be amazing to do something else than shelf beers and chips?

It might have taken me 9 years to go back to it, but it's not in the amount of years that I think about it, it's in amount of work that I've put in myself. As of today, I am a 30 years old student in college.

And I'm happy that I am.

22 years later, I am still amazed at a single button changing the color of some text. That's why I decided to make a career out of it.

Every day of my life, I want to be amazed at it, I want to wake up and amaze new kids trying the internet for the first time. Maybe, someday, they'll end up with their own homes around here too.

- Bobby