Profiles in Geekdom: Alex Plank of Wrong Planet

08.06.2012

No, I didn't but I thought about it. I did hang the motherboard on my wall in college. I put it next to my Think Different posters.

So where did your interest in tech, and--I know you're a videographer--where did your interest in videography and tech stem from?

"I think the biggest impact of the Internet and technology for individuals with autism is being able to communicate in a way that had never been possible before. "

The tech stuff I was just always interested in it. I had my first computer when I was eight, maybe...that sounds about right. And my parents never got Internet until 1996 or 1995, right around there. But I was always fascinated by computers and technology.

And I always told myself, I'm going to make a computer programmer, and so I started learning lots of different languages, and at first I started using BASIC because that was there was a compiler on my computer. I thought I was supposed to learn Assembly first [chuckles]; it just confused me so much.