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Today the site andreyolegovich.ru turns exactly 10 years old, the time flew by unnoticed.

It all began in a shawarma place on Narvskaya, where Misha and I were sitting.

For some reason he decided that I would make a good "technical director" for the website of courses preparing for the Unified State Exam. I had no experience at all, but I already had some template on Joomla and a slightly strange hosting.

I had to pick things up on the fly; after classes we sat with Siniy in the twelfth dormitory and poked at Joomla.

A year later it became clear: you have to be able to make a site with your own hands, without relying on a CMS. andreyolegovich.ru became such a modest attempt, made as a simple HTML page.

Then, gradually, articles appeared about using a flash drive in Linux, about the blue fence around PUNK and a dictionary of abbreviations in nuclear power.

The article about the history of the nuclear physics department of St Petersburg State University is also from 2010; thanks to it my site got a link from Wikipedia itself.

At about the same time I wrote an article about typesetting in LaTeX, which has already been read by about forty thousand people. It was included in the list of recommended resources at three Russian universities and is still one of the most popular on the site.

Another year later the need arose to add something to the HTML + CSS combination, there were many pages, and redoing all the navigation by hand was unbearably slow. The obvious choice of most web beginners is PHP. That is what I started using to save time.

And so the site lived on until 2017, design has never been my strong point and I did not strain myself until I realised that half of the traffic was already coming from mobile phones