---
id: history-overview
area: history
level: 1
title: "History"
claim: "Sam delivered interactive work for twenty-two agencies and twenty-three brands between 1999 and 2014 — the commercial apprenticeship that produced the range."
confidence: historic
period: "1999–2014"
tech: [ActionScript, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, XML, React, Python, Go, HTMX]
metrics: [{label: "agencies on the client wall", value: 22}, {label: "brands delivered for", value: 23}, {label: "code exhibits kept", value: 6}]
artefacts: [{type: doc, label: "The client wall", url: "content/history/l3/history-client-wall.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Six code exhibits across five eras", url: "content/history/l3/history-code-exhibits.md"}]
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [history, agencies, brands, career]
---
The languages changed six times across the period — ActionScript, PHP, JavaScript, React, Python, and now Go with HTMX — and the exhibits are chosen to show that rather than to show a decade. The era-by-era record is on the [engagement record](history-engagements.md).