 How did you get started in hacking/programming?
Tichy: I suppose get excited about something you can do with computers. As a kid, it excited me that I could influence what appears on the TV screen with my ZX Spectrum. I programmed lots of stupid drawings and animations (animation as in a character moving across the screen).While it might seem as if my generation was privileged to grow up at the same time that computers grew up, actually there have been several similar situations since then.A couple of years ago, there was a chance to influence what happens on your mobile phone (with J2ME programming, or earlier more hardcore methods). Recently, there is the mobile internet, or Twitter apps and social networking.