I'm not sure if this counts; the birth of my hacking started on my dad's lap, doing amateur radio. We made our own radios with kits and parts from other things,

I'm not sure if this counts; the birth of my hacking started on my dad's lap, doing amateur radio. We made our own radios with kits and parts from other things, and setup our own antennae outside. We even setup some crazy starmap printer, and I think it worked through our antennae. We didn't get a dish until much later. At the very least I learned to master the fear of big manuals. My programming, and my general interest in computers, was the natural progression from that. I don't even remember the first programming language I learned, but everything after that was easy. Learn one language and you learn them all, I guess. Taking things apart, reassembling, and creating is in my blood. Thanks dad.