I have always loved computers as long as the family has had one and have always been "playing" with them to figure out what they did, how they did it, and more importantly, what more I could make it do. This tinkering naturally lead to writing scripts and programs for them and many long hours of writing programs that had no use other than "Hey, I wonder if I can make it do this" followed by a couple of programs that actually did something. Sometimes they even did useful things