I was just watching a documentary on Apple. It showed how they got started etc... very interesting. That reminded me of some very early memories. I was with my dad and we'd go to his work after dinner sometimes so he could work on the computer because he had a lot to do. Nobody else was in the factory. I remember the apple logo and the shape of the computer (it was an early mac, sometime between 1984-1986) and he'd sometime spend hours on it. Often the lights weren't on and I'd get so bored. The colorful apple logo used to amuse me a bit sometimes. I remember my mom and family saying that dad is too smart to do his old job so they make him do computer stuff now. Not until I was deep into programming many years later did I find out that he was a computer programmer. I also found out that his dad was a mainframe operator for IBM and worked there for most of his life. Apparently they used to take me to annual IBM family fairs with ferris wheels, rides, picnics etc... I don't remember that. The last time I saw him was when I was 4 or 5 years old because of divorce and I didn't reunite with him and that family until I was 18 or 19.
Early childhood memories about computers
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Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
