Again..probably lots of similarities. My brother was into computers before anyone even thought of having them in their homes. A good 22 years ago. I thought he was crazy spending so much time to get a machine to do so little. LOL Then he was a sysop and ran a BBS on an Omega computer (I think that's what it was called - I'm not very up on this stuff) when only a few people were 'into' it. I remember playing a few text-based games and being amazed (and up until the wee hours playing , as I recall). As far as programming - he taught himself, mostly and learned the rest of what he knows in the military (mainframes, too - I saw them; huge things). He's out of the military now (though he still works closely with them) and works for a company in Ottawa.

<font color=green>Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.</font color=green> --Alan Keightley