My First Love Was the City, and I Loved It

My first love, I think, was the city. My parents always stayed in the city. They never moved out to the suburbs. And that sort of love and that obsession was made most tangible by maps. So I taught myself how to program because I wanted to learn how to draw a map on the screen. Then I put some dots on the map, and then I learned how to move the dots around. The issue was that none of the dots had any meaning whatsoever. They're just random dots moving around this city. In 1984, 1985, we got the first Macintosh, and an IBM PC junior. And I really wanted to play more with maps. I wanted to see them,