I started with a ZX81 around age 12, one or two models before Spectrum. It didn't have any games, but making games was a big motivation for me when getting it.

I started with a ZX81 around age 12, one or two models before Spectrum. It didn't have any games, but making games was a big motivation for me when getting it. Hell it didn't even have a tape station or any way to store your programs. So I would turn it on and type in some basic code from various computer magazines - usually some simple game - which would then be lost as soon as the computer was turned off again. It had 1kb of ram, which could be expanded with a bulky external cartridge of 16kb. So I taught myself Basic. Later in school I was taught Comal 80, some variation of Cobol taught in Danish schools. I learned Pascal later, also in School. When Internet came to Denmark in 1995 I taught myself PHP v1+2+3, and later Javascript, and started my own little business creating websites, based on a selfmade CMS. PHP + javascript has served me well for 18 years, but I think its time to move on to something like Go - so thats what I am planning now.