An ordered list of how I got where I am now:

1. started with Netscape Page Composer
2. switched to Macromedia Dreamweaver
3. started using Macromedia Flash
4. stopped using Macromedia Flash
5. actually learned HTML
6. started using Photoshop
7. first used javascript (for mouseover link highlighting)
8. picked up the bare minimum PHP (include)
9. learned simple SQL
10. began realizing the value of templating
11. discovered CSS, (cried tears of joy)
12. realized the power of PHP
13. realized the ugliness of PHP
14. realized the beauty of javascript
15. introduced to javascript frameworks (MooTools)
16. realized that there were PHP frameworks
17. tried to use PHP frameworks (cried tears of pain)
18. discovered jQuery
19. discovered Python/Django
20. had to relearn everything I thought I knew about apache to get Django to work
21. Happy :)