David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I was like,

that what's this?

This is not a Commodore 64, but it was a computer.

So I got my first computer at essentially six years old, that Amstrad 464.

And of course, the first thing I wanted to do, I wanted to play video games.

And I think the computer, which he, by the way, had traded for a TV and a stereo recorder or something like that, came with like two games.

One was this Frogger game where you had to escape from underground.

It was actually kind of dark, like this frog, you're trying to get it out from underground.

And I was just, I was pretty bad at it.

And I only had those two games.

And then

I wanted more games.

And one way to get more games when you're a kid who doesn't have a lot of money and can't just buy a bunch of games is to type them in yourself.

Back in 84, 85, magazines would literally print source code at the back of their magazines, and you could just sit and type it in.

So I tried to do that, and it would take like two hours to print –

this game into the Amistrad.

And of course, I'd make some spelling mistake along the way and something wouldn't work.

And the whole thing, I wasn't that good of English.

I was born in Denmark.

So I was really trying to get into it because I wanted all these games.