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Brian Emilius

I started programming at first because I wanted my Amiga Workbench OS to greet me personally when I flicked the brick on. Then, later, because I had been reading all the "Write Your Own Adventure" books at the library and I just knew that this should be doable on a computer as well. So with Commodore Basic I made a few of my own adventures. Imagine all the goto declarations!
A few years later the Internet landed, and imagine my awe when I realized I would be able to share all those little programs with the wider world, almost at no cost!