Must have been 1983-1984ish. I took an independent study "to learn about computers" my senior year in high school before the school offered a regular class. I also took the class. And a class offered by Colorado Mountain College. We accessed bulletin boards then. I remember the Army recruiter being amazed at how much computer experience I had. He wanted to sign me up to "fix computers." I declined....

A few years ago the book "This Machine Kills Secrets" was recommended to me.

https://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-.../dp/0525953205

I could not make out the author's point of the book. This book was mostly something to do while cabbed up, waiting for construction to start...

The book follows several better known internet leakers through their careers from the beginning to the time it was published. What I did find interesting was how many of them got started the same way I did. It made me realize what a frontier existed out in cyberland and wonder how different things could be if I had made only slightly different choices. Anybody else?