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It was the year 2006, and I was 13 years old. Our teacher walked us over to a new class, “Computer Lab”. I took my seat on a small plastic chair in front of a translucent turquoise teardrop-shaped iMac G3. I remember the design leaving an impression on me. It felt alien and futuristic. It was the first day so they let us play around with the computers as a sort of low-touch onboarding experience. I opened the Applications folder and spotted an application icon that caught my attention. I clicked into it and Kid Pix booted up. I was intrigued but unsuspecting. Within a few clicks, the screen came to life with animated textures, sounds and motion. I was in a daze, locked in a creative stupor, swirling down a never-ending whirlpool of randomly generated content. I had no idea computers were capable of such serendipity. My mind was struggling to capture the breadth of what I was experiencing. It sucked me in. From that day forward, I fell in love with computers. More importantly, bei

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