Early Days of Coding Greats
Stories about the intelligence and foresight of tech royalty are easy to find. Microsoft is worth how much?! Google just launched what?! We all had to start somewhere, so let’s take a look at some early projects of the tech greats.
Mark Zuckerberg
Known for: Co-founding Facebook
Mark wasn’t a computer-obsessed kid. “Learning how to program didn’t start off with wanting to learn all of computer science or trying to master this discipline or anything like that. It started off because I wanted to do this one simple thing — I wanted to make something that was fun for myself and my sisters,” he said. That game would be similar to Risk and centered around the Roman Empire. “You played against Julius Caesar. He was good, and I was never able to win.”
Before AOL Instant Messenger came out, Mark also made “ZuckNet,” a program that allowed instant messaging between all the computers in his house and the computers at his dad’s dentist practice.
