Afternoon everyone!
Happy Friday, going for a valentines day theme today as it’s only a few days away now (REMINDER IF YOU NEED TO BUY A CARD OR PRESENT STILL!!!).
So, you’re working in the technology world, you may hate it at times, but there’s a fine line between love and hate. (Except for you printers, I hate you).
What was the first moment of pure joy/love you had working with tech? Or worded another way, what was your first memorable moment in tech that you found impressive/amazing? However you word it, tech has had a profound impact on our lives globally, what ignited the spark?
I was writing in BASIC at a young age, and I remember the first time I started working with 3D objects/models. I think I was using DirectX 7 or 8, and I remember having some stock assets, making a terrain, creating a camera that would follow an object and programming in movement controls to the object. I hadn’t worked out how to effectively handle collision yet and stop the object from clipping through the terrain, but it amazed me that I had done that, and pushed me on to many more years of writing code, creating game demos etc.
That’s my story, what’s yours?
my first contact with computers were back in school when some friends of mine had a Commodore C64 (is this machine known outside of Germany?). Games and first tries of programming - a whole new world at this time…
) to system management with automatic software distribution ( hehe, at this time we sent the software on CDs to the remote branches, because the connections were to expensive. Only the control traffic to install the software at the branches from the CD was sent over the remote connection). Then the whole Tivoli stack. And from there to TSM, my entry to backup and storage. This developed further and now Veeam and Spectrum protect and all kind of storage from architecture to operations….
. My thing was language and literature. However, life is always full of surprises. I did like goofing off and playing games though. Started innocently enough, solitaire, minesweeper. Then got worse Tetris and the show was over when Doom arrived. The problem was that the computer that I had at the time needed more memory to get Doom to really work. There were companies in the country I was living at the time who could do this work but they were charging way too much money and could have adversely affected my beer budget. So I went out and bought a book and went to one of the wild “radio” markets that were there and did it myself. Oh the joy of everything moving fast on the screen. Then MP3’s came and once again my computer could not do it.. back to the book store and I assembled my own PC. My boss at the time also secretly wanted to listen to music and play games but wanted someone he could trust to upgrade his PC. I began to regularly help him and his wife with their computers. Afterwards when an official IT position came up in the organization that I was working in, my boss out of the blue recommended me. There were better technical people applying for this internal only position but to make sure the contest was fair and square he added on a prerequisite of speaking the local language to the job description (which I spoke and the others did not 
