What is your first memory of technology impacting your life?

That would be when I was trying to make a Jacob's ladder out of a set of TV "rabbit ear" antenna at the age of four by sticking the wires in the electric outlet. I flew about four feet through the air. It left a real impression.

I also helped my father put together toys for a toy store when I was growing up, and I studied electronics when I was in high school.

When did you start using Linux or open source?

I was using Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in 1969, but we did not call it that at the time. We called it "software".