I was introduced to a programmable calculator around 1978 at the age of 15, then a mini-computer the year after. I wrote my first machine code program for a 1 MHz processor in 1980, picked up a book on compilers in 1982, learned about UNIX in 1983, started using e-mail in 1984, saw the WWW in the early 1990’s, got my PhD in 1994 and been wondering what to do since then.