A crush with programming.
When I was 11 years old I had a crush on this girl who I was too shy to talk to. At the time my friends, including the girl I had a crush on, were using an IRC Â client called MIRC to chat among each other after school. Once I discovered the tool, I quickly figured out how to get popular inside this virtual channels, despite my lack of popularity in the real world. Â I realized I could use this virtual environment to get close to her. After reading an entire book on IRC programming I created multiple channels and invited all my friends to join. Within weeks, I was the founder of a very cool chat channel in the IRC. Then I created a bot that would send an special message to this girl every time she logged into the channel. Once she became an active user in my channel, I built the confidence to walk up to her at school and brag about my creation. She was impressed! And soon after that we started going out. It's a child's story, but I always found it funny. Funnily enough my real crush happened to be programming.
