David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

You're constantly surrounded by people who are really good at what they could do.

They're really good at programming computers.

It's infectious.

It was part of that...

Pang, I felt then going like, oh man, why can't I figure this out?

I mean, why can't I even figure out Easy Amos?

I mean, it's kind of frustrating.

So third attempt is when I start getting it.

This is when I start helping out, let's say, building things for the internet.

So around 95, I think it is, or 96, I discovered the internet.

Actually, ninth grade, that was my first experience.

I went to some university in Denmark and

And in ninth grade, we had this excursion and they sat us down in front of a computer and the computer had Netscape navigator, the first version, or maybe it was even the precursor to that.

And they had a text editor and us kids just got like, hey, build something on the internet.

And it was just HTML.

And the first thing you do is like, oh, I can make the text blink by just putting in this tag and saving it.

That was that moment.

That was actually when I reawakened the urge to want to learn the program because I got a positive experience.

All the other experiences I had with programming was I'd spend hours typing something in.

I'd click run and it wouldn't work.