Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serve, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew

Jelina. I am joined this morning by John Newman, senior software engineer, and

Java Spring and Oracle Technologist John welcome.

Thank you very much.

Great to have you on.

I know we've been going back and forth.

We finally got us both in the studio.

Been pretty busy so it's about time I get in here.

Good problem.

Yeah.

So tell us if you could kind of what made you initially excited about technology way

back when?

One of the first things I did, you know, when I was in my youth I had a Commodore 64 was my first computer.

Father kind of brought it into the house and started playing around with that.

A lot of online stuff was really the first kind of

foray into the online world. 300 baud modem, you know graduated the 2400 baud did a lot of

online stuff with my friends. It's you know good. the So, kind of same thing, you know, the internet was still growing, so at that point got into, you know, designing websites and kind of playing around a little bit.

I was fortunate enough to be born at the right time I think is really what it came into because computers

had just started to get popular around the time I got to high school and it was what all my friends were doing so is kind of had a mixed group of friends I played sports and everything but I was also kind of that inner geek found its way out eventually.

Okay, what sports did you play? I played football, basketball, and

baseball. Oh wow. Yeah, three seasons. Yeah, pretty busy. Once I get to high school,

it kind of died down a little bit just because academics and went through a couple

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