# 참고로 민구홍은…

Born March 5, 1985. I received formal Montessori education in 1989, around the age of five. I first encountered a computer, a Macintosh LC, in 1991, around the age of seven, and made my first website for a dear friend in 1995, around the age of eleven. I studied literature and linguistics at Chung-Ang University and computer programming at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) in the US (though I prefer to call it “literature and linguistics in a narrow sense,” or simply “poetic computation”), and learned various practical skills, including knot tying, ikebana, and design, through Google. I worked as a researcher in Professor Ahn Sang-soo’s laboratory at Hongik University (also known as “Wing House”) (despite the title, there was hardly any work to do). After working in the Publishing Division at Ahn Graphics, I work as an editor at Workroom, planning books such as Practical Books and Ametora. Meanwhile, I run the one-person company Min Guhong Manufacturing. Books I have translated include Forget All the Rules About Graphic Design. Including the Ones in This Book. (Studio Ghost, 2017).

![Moving endlessly between DOS and Windows…](https://minguhong.fyi/images/dos.svg)
![Of all the computer languages, HTML and CSS, which I have used for nearly thirty years, are probably the languages I know best after English and Japanese.](https://minguhong.fyi/images/html-and-css.jpg)
![My first website, uploaded to Yahoo! GeoCities, suddenly vanished when Yahoo! closed the service in 2009, as the dot-com bubble was deflating. The site now exists only in my dreams: perfectly vivid while I dream, hazy once I wake.](https://minguhong.fyi/images/yahoo-geocities.jpg)
![Still, that first experience of making a website made me who I am. As Marshall McLuhan put it, “I make tools, and tools make me.”](https://minguhong.fyi/images/i-have-a-website.png)
![Being scolded by my mother every time the phone bill arrived, thanks to my obsession with dial-up services: the computer’s fault. My early encounter with American humor through the Monkey Island games: the computer’s gift. “I spent too much of my life making ‘other people’s things.’” (Ron Gilbert, game designer)](https://minguhong.fyi/images/hitel.jpg)
![Being scolded by my mother every time the phone bill arrived, thanks to my obsession with dial-up services: the computer’s fault. My early encounter with American humor through the Monkey Island games: the computer’s gift. “I spent too much of my life making ‘other people’s things.’” (Ron Gilbert, game designer)](https://minguhong.fyi/images/monkey-island.png)