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Who I am

I was born in Rome, Italy on Epoch 12.121.800 GMT. For those who are unfamiliar with Unix OS this number represents 21 May 1970, 7:10 GMT.

I started using computers in the early 1980s, the golden age of 8 bit computers. My first love was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K. Its BASIC language had me spend many hours in school classes designing sprites of dubious morality on chequered notebooks. From those times of early programming experiments, I never stopped developing on computers. The late 1980s was the time of Altger Chat, a Germany based Unix host accessible through an X.25 network called Itapac and our self-made V21 modems running at the incredible speed of 300 baud (something like 0.0002 Mb/sec).

After a high school degree in Electronics and Telecommunications I started studying Mathematics at the University of Rome and working at the same time as a programmer and network administrator. I discovered Internet programming in 1993 working as a volunteer in a university project called "Virtual Campus".

In 1995 I founded Alpha Channel Interactive Srl, my first web agency and since then I've been almost exclusively programming Perl on Linux servers with Apache and mySQL. In 1999 I founded my second IT company, ForteYang Srl.