I'm 31, when I was 12 my dad gave me his old Pentium 100MHz, because he bought himself a new PC. I was hooked immediately - I wanted to make games so I stole(a

I'm 31, when I was 12 my dad gave me his old Pentium 100MHz, because he bought himself a new PC. I was hooked immediately - I wanted to make games so I stole(after getting a hard "no" upon asking) a few CDs from PC magazines from my dad and started installing any software that would catch my attention. My first lines of code were a result of reverse-engineering a "family homepage" - something one could generate in the original Sims game - I think I made an image change its source URL on hover or something like that. Unfortunately my potato PC had a radiator issue so any serious work could only be done in the middle of winter with the window wide open - otherwise after 20 minutes or so I would get random errors, restarts etc. Later I got a floppy disc from school with the Logo platform and a book about Pascal + CD from my friend and a CD with MS FrontPage. Having obtained these tools and with the radiator fixed I almost failed a year in school, because I already found my calling and homework was a distant second priority. Looking back I regret I didn't have an internet connection until 2007 or so.