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Brad Fitzpatrick is the youngest person I interviewed and the only one who has never lived in a world without the Internet or personal computers. Born in 1980, he got an early start as a programmer, learning to program at age five on a homebuilt Apple II clone. By his teenage years the Internet revolution was in full swing and he was deep into it, building his first commercial web site while still in high school and starting work on the popular community site LiveJournal the summer before he went to college.
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Seibel, P. (2009). Brad Fitzpatrick. In: Coders at Work. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1949-1_2
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