Look, if you’re not a developer, you might think we’ve lost our minds starting a blog with “Hello World.” Fair enough. But here’s the thing – every developer in the history of ever has started by making their computer say these two words. It’s like a digital rite of passage, except less exciting and more typing.
Picture this: When you’re setting up a new email account, what’s the first thing you do? Send yourself a test email with nothing but “test” in it, right? (Don’t pretend you’ve never done this.) Well, developers do exactly the same thing, except we’re less creative about it. For some reason that’s probably lost to the 1970s, we all agreed that making a computer say “Hello World” would be our universal “yep, it works” test message. Same energy as your “test” email, just nerdier.
So here we are at WAV Digital, doing what developers have done since before most of us were born – starting with Hello World. Not because we’re particularly creative (though we are), but because some traditions are so deeply ingrained in tech culture that ignoring them feels like wearing socks with sandals to a code review.
But unlike your standard Hello World program, which usually gets deleted faster than your browser history, we’re here to stick around. We’re building a lab where we take all that expertise from We Are Volume and use it to make digital stuff that actually works the way it should. And we’re going to document every step, every mishap, and every “why didn’t we think of this sooner?” moment.
Consider this our digital throat-clearing. Our awkward wave to the internet. Our “testing, 1, 2, 3” moment. Except instead of just checking if the mic works, we’re about to start a whole concert of building better digital solutions.
And yes, of course we tested this blog system by making it print “Hello World” first. Some clichés are clichés for a reason.
Stay tuned. It’s about to get a lot more interesting than two words on a screen.
(Unless something breaks. Then it might just be error messages on a screen. But we’ll tell you about those too.)
Further Reading (because apparently “Hello World” has lore)
- A Brief History of Hello World – For those who really want to know why we’re all still doing this after 50 years
- Brian Kernighan’s original Hello World – The one that started it all. Thanks Brian, this is clearly your fault
- A ridiculously detailed analysis – Wikipedia’s deep dive into two words that changed programming forever (yes, really)