Algol 60 at school
In about 1964 a very enlightened teacher at Bedford School devoted a couple of lessons to teaching us the rudiments of Algol-60. Another teacher built a two-bit (literally?) computer from post-office relays; I had to fire up the AC to DC motor-generator (normally used to power the school's ancient film projector in the Great Hall) to meet its power requirements so that I could add 2 to 2 and watch it get 4. All that started me on a career through Fortran, Cobol, PL/I, Assembler, C etc and now, in retirement, PHP, Python, CSS and Javascript.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
