Likely when I was 9-10 or so (~1986). By that time, TV sets were magical devices able to show images and movements... produced by somebody else. Computers were a miracle able let the programmer (me) control what is shown on a TV/monitor. That fascinated me. I started with a Spectrum owned by a friend, then nagged my parents enough to buy me an Amstrad CPC 6128 with green monitor (which I still own and is sitting on a table here on my left). I learnt BASIC, Logo, music and trigonometry with the user manual of that computer. Years later, I got an IBM PS/2 and found out what a compiler was (a QuickBasic compiler). I started my Computer Science degree the year after and learnt much more interesting stuff: Pascal, C, Java, OCaml... I also signed up on a local Linux User Group and that was the door that opened a job on a Free Software consultancy for me. That's what pays my bills now. Looking back, I'm really happy about who the story went. :-)

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Well when I was 4, me and my dad used to build PCs for people. From there, I managed to get my own and started tinkering with the OS and working out how it worked (and breaking it a lot).

From then, I eventually got access to the internet when I was around 7-8 and was fascinated by websites and wanted to know how they worked. So a lot of inspect element and learning HTML was where I originally got into programming and web design.

I then saw sites like YouTube and Facebook and was sure they were using something else to make the pages since manually updating stuff as people submitted it sounded like a lot of work, so I did some researching into backend stuff like PHP and now I'm a PHP dev!

As a bit of a site quest, this is how I was introduced to some of the languages I know today:

Lua: Computer Craft
NodeJS: IRC bot channels
Batch: Trolling at school
VBS: Trolling at school but on another level