How-To-Torials

Getting Started on Medium.com

From a writer who’s been on and helped build the internet since 1982

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I worked for IBM as a programmer, systems engineer, and sales and marketing rep, along with some assorted high-level staff and executive jobs, from 1982 to 2009. I remember standing in front of large rooms of people who would ask me, “What exactly are we going to do with this internet thing? How will we be using it?” These were the days before Google, before there were any browsers. Back when people still called it the World Wide Web.

Good times. Many stories.

I’ve been writing stories on Medium since before I could even say I was terrorized by the green publish button, as if it were a specter in a Steven King novel.

New Medium members often ask — How do I get started?

The simple answer is to just look for the “Write” clickable and open up a draft. Just start.

But you might also be interested to know, over the past six years, in the writing communities that have gathered together since I began writing here, we have created a full page of tutorials. They are fun to read. Our community believes that technical information about how to do something shouldn’t be boring. You can find all those articles here on…