“It wasn’t like I had a choice, you know?” Imagine you’re Ray Ozzie, born half a decade after Turing outlined his Test to see if a machine is truly intelligent. You’re lucky enough to attend a high school with ARPA funding, ARPA of internet forerunner ARPANET fame, with Teletypes connected to time sharing mainframes, with a teacher looking for volunteers to figure out how to use the thing. FORTRAN was finalized when you were two. And now, in high school, you’re coding in FORTRAN and Basic in downtime at school, a string of words that would have been nonsensical a few years prior. Logic would have you major in Electrical Engineering; luck would place you at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. And UICI was where everything from the first eBook to the first graphical browser, Mosaic, would be invented. Coding was manual, tedious, in those late-1970’s days. “In my classes, we were using card decks. We were having to ...…