6. Discuss Sony's early online mall and your involvement.
Soon after I left counseling, I went to work for a large fulfillment company. They were quick to get online and convinced the early Sony Station to have an online mall. Since my company pegged me as a ?creative type? they asked me to act as the webmaster and ?fake it till you make it? in meetings and try to convince Sony that we were experts in this emerging field. This was in 95-96 and there were no HTML classes or anything. I worked with a Perl programmer and we held the server together with Popsicle sticks and duct tape. I would manually update their product catalog using Notepad and Photoshop when changes were needed. Everything was so new, nobody really knew what we were doing. Lots of trial and error and late nights in the server room. Eventually Sony took it all in house, but it was a cool ?first computer related job? as I learned about the web.
