Do you remember when technology blew your mind for the first time ever and kickstarted your tech ambition? For me it was the iPod Nano, I remember seeing the ad and being hooked on tech and especially music tech ever since.
January 1984, Apple's Super Bowl commercial, that started my love of tech and stayed with me all throughout my life. Remember being mesmerized by it. The first tech I owned was a boombox by Aiwa, that I took apart and rebuilt it to make it "better" so I thought.
I think it might be Norton Commander ("NC"). It was the first user interface I have seen as a kid when I just started using the computer. Till then it was only DOS commands
JPEG. When I first understood how the image compression algorithm works, I was fascinated about the signal processing technologies. So simple yet so powerful!
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