Rene Descartes and Kurt Vonnegut "Welcome to the Monkey House" were big influencers for me in high school.

When I saw my first perl script as a 10 year old lad, made a little change to it, discovered I can control what computers do, felt like a god

I wish I could say the same. When I was 19, I started reading 1984 but then got bored halfway and abandoned it. Didn't think much of it. Some concepts stuck though, like the idea of a telescreen or how language was manipulated, like the famous passage about war is peace, etc

Late ‘95 in the uni library I saw a student editing html in notepad. Asked him a couple of questions and seeing how easy it was my life was different

i didn’t discover that feeling until my 20’s - can’t imagine what it must be like as a kid 🤯

When I was a junior in high school, in the minutes before Physics class, I was talking to my friend Chad. It was 1979, and only a few of us at my school had used a computer and could write programs in BASIC. Chad had even done some paid work, so I really looked up to him. As we were waiting for the bell to ring, he was showing me prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled by Jesus. I saw that there was a coherency in the Bible, even though it had been written by many human authors over the span of centuries. I realized that coherency was evidence of divine authorship of the Bible, so I have spent the rest of my life seeking the God that I got a glimpse of back in high school.