How I Learned to Copy and Paste, and Why I Never Do

This article recounts a personal story from the mid-1990s when the author, as a teenager, learned to build web pages by manually typing every line of HTML from a Star Wars fan page's source code. After days of painstaking effort, a friend introduced them to copy-paste (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V), which could have replicated the page instantly. However, the author argues that the manual process led to a deeper understanding of how the page worked, enabling them to extend and evolve it. The article reflects on the value of learning fundamentals thoroughly before relying on shortcuts, making it relevant to IT/technology as a lesson in coding education and hands-on learning.