How I Started with TYPO3
Published on 04.08.2011 by Robert Lemke
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Today is my tenth anniversary! On August 4th, 2001 I uploaded my very first TYPO3 installation – not knowing that it would change my life.
That sounds very pathetic – "it changed my life". But it really did, in many ways. Back then, somewhen in March 2001, I discovered TYPO3 after searching for a tool which allowed me to manage my website and has specific support for image conversion. I saved the bookmark for later and forgot about it until I prepared for a half-year stay in Barcelona.
At that point, neither programming nor the web have been part of my daily job. I've been working at Studio Hamburg, a big technical provider for TV and movie productions. I had piled up literally hundreds of extra hours as a video technician and planned to take some time off. To keep my friends and family up to date, I needed a proper website which I could feed from any cibercafé.
So eventually on August 4th I uploaded the first zip file with my TYPO3 website to a shared server. Four weeks later I was online with my brand new website (as you can see in the screenshot) – it even featured a guest book!
After I returned from Barcelona, my enthusiasm to change the world didn't quite match with the big company I was working in – so I quit my job shortly after my return. I started studying Applied Cultural Studies in Lüneburg, met friends for life and ... my future wife. As I seemed to have reached all possible goals at university (my wife), I decided to work full time as a freelancer building TYPO3 websites. And thus since 2003 I am just that, a TYPO3 developer.
How did you start with TYPO3?
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Robert is TYPO3 5.0 and FLOW3 founding dev, espresso lover, optimist and proud husband and father.
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Congratulations ;-) And great to see your design skills actually improved :-)
Very nice posting; my first TYPO3 was a version 3.5 (I do neither remember on what specific day that was, nor which year :-/, and: this page is just revised these days to a new face and background. Shame on me, the page is still based on 3.5 because the customer never wanted to update. Only the "jumpUrl md5 bug" was fixed there :)
I can definately say it also changed my life, because TYPO3 is now also my one-and-almost-only profession :)
Congratulations on your anniversary!
I discovered TYPO3 version 3.5 in the spring of 2004, sadly just a little too late to build my graduation project with it (bachelor of journalism). I built a few sites with it and after some very interesting projects I'm now the resident TYPO3 guru at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I won't say TYPO3 changed my life, but it did influence its direction profoundly.
March 27th 2003 is the day I got TYPO3 and the then brand new "Getting Started" and "Modern Template Building" pdf. I installed TYPO3 3.5 on a Windows machine and it worked flawlessly... True story!
as luck would have it:
http://www.studio-hamburg.de/typo3/
;-)