My dad and I used to build those Radio Shack kits where you could make a simple radio with a breadboard. This was probably when I was 5 or 6? It was clear that

My dad and I used to build those Radio Shack kits where you could make a simple radio with a breadboard. This was probably when I was 5 or 6? It was clear that I enjoyed that, and I enjoyed the old DOS games at the time, and my dad had a bit of an IS background at the time, so he encouraged me and together we did some BASIC programming together. I also eventually got one of those Lego Mindstorms kits as one of the other commenters mentioned when they came out, which probably would've been around age 7 or 8. I just took off by myself after that. Playing around more with basic, eventually learning some basic frontend stuff so I could show off webpages to my friends, and then moving on to some Java after that. It's been a passion ever since.