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I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

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Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: May 14
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