My origin story

Ever since I booted my first computer (1st gen Apple Macintosh), I've been hooked by the magic that was the GUI, and the endless possibilities. It was clear that this would become my future. Years later of destroying DOS software and fixing it up again, killing the family pc for science and telling them "I really did know what I was doing" around came the web. To me it was the personal software for any man; no need to fiddle with the OS, because that's just your machine. Fiddle on the internet, for all to see! In came the first HTML-study books and CD-ROMS with editing software in the bookstore. I remember buying my first software package vividly, the clerk was réally interested to see what I'd do with it. I hope he reads this.

Eventually we had an primary school 'introduction to the internet' class in the library, and everybody was looking at me because they knew I already had my first website on the web. It was an agonizing long URL, based somewhere on Homestead, but I could recite it from memory. I stole the show in front of some 12 year olds and the old library lady. Aw yiss! From there it was only a matter of time, but I did take some sidesteps in music journalism and graphic design first. Eventually I ended up a excelling student in ICT Media Design studies and shortly after graduating in the field of increasing conversion by usability design I started my own design company with an old colleague. I did the concepting and design there for a couple of years, but I found out that the logic of programming (either "it just works" or "goddamnit, what the hell") was what got me in to computers in the first place.