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Alex's first experiences with a computer was with his Commodore 64, where he taught himself BASIC programming. In the years following, even if the computer wasn't the most used in his toy chest, Alex was still fascinated with geeky things, like ripping out resistors from a broken Nintendo and attempting to decode the meaning of the color coded bands. In college, it was back to the computer world, building his first 386 system. Here he probably spent more time addicted to his computer, and all the things his 2400 baud modem could connect him to, than he did in class. Commands like write, talk, ytalk, ntalk, irc, ftp, gopher, archie (Google before the web)... the list never seemed to end with tools to discover more information on the Internet. Later came the Web, OS/2, Windows 95, Doom, and an endless supply of software and hardware toys to dedicate even more time to. Since then, Alex has continued a career with computers as a sys admin turned application developer turned application security analyst.