My personal road went from html to javascript to perl (more or less), with a bit of random c hackery thrown in on the way. I started with the html, which is nice and simple and got me used to the idea of writing something that would be executed , as it were, by something else, it also gave me some experience reading the "source" to teach myself.
After doing that for a while I got interested in javascript to do more l33t stuff. I rather like javascript as a first "programming language", just because it's simple, easy to use and immediate, "cool" results. It also supports a number of fairly advanced features such as OO and so forth (more or less, it's been a while) which lets you get more advanced as you learn more.
After spending a while with javascript I wanted to do stuff that it couldn't do, learned about perl, and the rest is history =]
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