When I was a baby, my crib was right next to my dad's work station. As I remember it, this was my first exposure to ~the screen~. From here on out, I would make a series of important life decisions revolving around this box of light and information.
Once I started being able to voluntarily control my own behaviors, my parents sat me down to play computer games (a lot of the "educational" type, especially at first). This all culminated with the infamous Sims game, in which I loved finding all the glitches. From what I remember, trapping the Sims in flying houses and giving them infinite happiness were my favorites. Althoug I also really liked trapping them in rooms until they died and making ghost families...
This marked an important moment in my life. Through these interactions with the computer, I began understanding computer logic. This being the way that computers "work." To this day it is one of the most important skills I have - I have never really struggled with understanding why something does or doesn't work on a computer (even if finding the solution is difficult).
So, at this point I was aware that computers had many different components and functionalities. I was aware that things like code and hacking existed. But I had ruined my computer trying to "hack" into the Admin account, and that was the last time I tried to do anything of the sort. My interest had always been in the graphics.
En el momento no lo sabía, pero ya había hecho la decisión más grande de mí vida. De ahora en adelante, y por lo que veo para el resto de mi vida, trabajaría en frente de pantallas. Thanks dad.
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