Subject of the week | What sparked your initial interest in the tech industry?

My interest in tech is easily traced back to computer games. My dad brought home an Atari 800 one day and it was the coolest thing ever! Even though I was no doubt terrible at the games I played on it, the whole thing was so much fun that it instilled a life-long love of computers. I remember things like some sort of Frogger knock-off called Preppie (was about a golfer trying to cross the street to retrieve his golf ball), the racing game Pole Position, trying to race through Oregon Trail during my elementary school's 50 minute computer class (we didn't have any drives to save our game to, so the time crunch became the real challenge!) and then adventure games like King's Quest and Space Quest.

Later on, when I got a TI-82 graphing calculator, my initial love of computer games carried through and I'd make simple little programs for things like dice rolling, a text adventure game with a rudimentary combat system, and yes, even useful things for class like a quadratic equation solver.

But it was really those early video game experiences that made me want to work with computers.