My dad took me to the office and showed me his PC and allowed me to use the (unplugged) keyboard.
Januari 1991
We got a PC at home
Through some kind of program at work my dad bought a PC for at home. He also had a colleague who sold Twilight cd's which were CD's full of ripped games and software, basically torrents before the internet. This is the first time I used a "terminal" (MS-DOS) to install the software / games.
March 1992
Messing with games
Started to mess with MS-DOS games like GTA1 by editing config files. I learned about project file structures, text editing, variables, etc.
I did things like myself extra lives, changing car textures and sounds, etc.
June 1995
Qbasic
Playing a friends house my friends brother showed us basic and how you could create loops to move characters on a screen. I was amazed.
July 1996
Qbasic Animations
Started to create animations in Qbasic by drawing circles and smiley faces on the screen and moving them.
One animation was of my friend who's head ascended from his body, flew over to some douchebag on the other side of the screen and knocked him off the screen, amazing.
January 1999
Learning Pascal
Started learning Pascal from books.
I never actually used Pascal, but I was so intrigued by it that I just kept reading about it.
August 2003
ICT-Beheer
Started my "ICT-beheer" school
I quickly realized that I managing computers was not my thing, I wanted to build new things instead of using existing software / hardware.