In 1966 I entered Glendale College in my home town then as a Freshman college man and learned by 1967 Cobol and Fortran because I wanted to work in the computer programming direction then and with computers in general. Mostly there was only IBM computers and peripherals in colleges then in 1966 to 1968 or 1970. College students couldn't buy their own computers until the early 1980s in fact because all computers then cost an incredible amount of money. The first computer I could afford to buy was in 1978 which was the TRS-80 from Radio Shack I bought for 800 dollars then. I taught myself the Basic language because I understood the concepts of how a programming language works and then taught my children how to program their own games and sometimes homework using basic language on the TRS-80 in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Then in 1987 I bought an IBM Clone computer in Silicon VAlley and an Epson Color printer for around 2500 dollars for my family then and this began our present journey as a family to now through pentium chips and IBM clones to Macbook pros which I have stayed with since 2005 now because I just got tired of IBM clones crashing all the time. If an apple product crashes it's time to either throw it away or have it repaired one of the two.
In fact, I have a 2009 15 inch Macbook pro laptop that still works fine even today but I decided I wanted to get another NEW 15 inch Macbook pro in 2016 so that is what I mostly use now.
The last computer language that I learned was HTML around 1995. How I taught myself this one was interesting. I was running Windows 95 at the time on a desktop model IBM Clone and this software allowed me to copy any webpage (if you knew how to do this) to my computer's memory. So, then I copied an opening page of yahoo.com then and played with the programming and then ran it to see what it did. So, by experimenting with a page of yahoo that I had saved I learned HTML. But, this likely wouldn't work for a lot of people simply because they wouldn't have been programming computers since 1966 then in 1995.
So, after studying computer Network engineering I got sick and had to retire because of a heart virus at age 50 so I began programming my first website in June of 1999 using HTML. And I have had one or more websites I have been running ever since June of 1999.
IF you can follow detailed instructions or have ever been to college or are just technically smart or handy around the house likely you can run your own website.
You don't have to know how to program in any computer language now to run a website. It's helpful if you understand certain concepts but not really vitally necessary.
However, knowing how to ask questions on your IPhone or computer could be really helpful in running a website.
However, creating an audience is another thing entirely because it is all word of mouth usually and most websites that are really hot one year aren't necessarily the next year.
Vlogging or Video blogging is the most likely to get you an audience. However, I don't want to do that for a variety of reasons. It's mostly younger people who do this by the way and some even make a living at this of 200,000 or more if they are entertaining or educational enough. But, that's not where I need to go. I blog as a public service more than anything else to try to keep mankind from going extinct unnecessarily.
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