The mental model for building for the web largely hasn’t changed in the last 20 years, but we’ve incorporated complexity, richness, grown our community a thousand fold, and scaled to billions.

As the web turns 30, Lee takes us back to its inflection point in 1999, with PHP and the LAMP stack, followed by a journey of the abstractions, syntax, and mental models that brought us here.

Come with me on an adventure with a heroic robot, a mad scientist, a feminist, a pilot, and our monster: imposter syndrome.

The mental model for building for the web largely hasn’t changed in the last 20 years, but we’ve incorporated complexity, richness, grown our community a thousand fold, and scaled to billions.

As the web turns 30, Lee takes us back to its inflection point in 1999, with PHP and the LAMP stack, followed by a journey of the abstractions, syntax, and mental models that brought us here.

Come with me on an adventure with a heroic robot, a mad scientist, a feminist, a pilot, and our monster: imposter syndrome.