Tracing my technology roots
Welcome to my journey. In the next few paragraphs I will try to pinpoint the precise moments that made me a ...
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Ha! I grew up on Carmen Sandiego, yo!
Games were what got me into software development too. My love of them in the 90s led me to create some web games using Microsoft Home Publishing when I was a pre-teen. The idea later evolved into the flagship product for my software startup, MousePaw Media.
That's amazing, how things shape you in what you are, but at the time you are just having fun.
That's so nostalgic! I was reading your article and reminding about that 90's stuff, like Aol, MSN, dial up internet, Winamp, websites build in Front-Page or even notepad with a looooooot of gifs!
I'm not too old, but nowadays is so much good to develop, to build, in one hand we have a new JS framework each day, but in another things like Chrome DevTools it's fantastic! At 2009 I was building surveys on the company I worked on and debugging it in IE, oh man, this is so rustic hahaha
Hugs from Brazil!
if you own an android smartphone, access your phone settings and long press your (BUILD NUMBER) 5X which is located in your (ABOUT PHONE) settings. After YOU do that you will then become a software developer.
Great read, lots of nostalgic feelings. I think we grew up along a very similar timeline!