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Steven BuiBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingApr 9Image by Marta Matyjas from PixabayWhenever someone asks me about how I got into software development, it would put on a big smile on my face because I would tell them a funny story about a naive twelve-year-old kid who followed his curiosity. In a way, it’s my own unique origin story that I look back upon a time that I plunged deep into my passion and chased my curiosity to achieve a dream. I hope this story inspires you to follow your curiosity.

Back in the late 1990s before online graphical games became immensely popular, there were online multiplayer text-based dungeon games called “M.U.D.,” which is short for Multi-User Dungeon. That’s a type of game and not the game’s name. I have long forgotten the name of the game that I played. Anyways, playing the game required a lot of reading and typing because you needed to read what was happening and type out what you wanted to do. Fundamentally, it’s an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) without the fantastic graphical user interface and ability to use the mouse.