Instead of programming, video games got me into PC networking. In 1998 (I was 14 at the time), my friends and I had LAN parties because our town didn't have an

Instead of programming, video games got me into PC networking. In 1998 (I was 14 at the time), my friends and I had LAN parties because our town didn't have any sort of high speed internet. We each chipped in $50 and bought ourselves a "beginning home networking kit" which had an ethernet hub and a couple of NICs. I spent an afternoon getting our little network running so we could Quake. I was hooked.