Ty for sharing. So cool that your interest came from your dad!
My path is more towards design but I was always fascinated with hacking stuff.
I guess it all started when I was about six or seven. There was a local robotics club and I dropped in. Noticed a bunch of kids around some box, bashing at something. They were loading a game in DOS. Took a few minutes for some janky graphics game to show up on the screen. I was fascinated but didn’t interact with computers again until the age of 12 - Windows 3. 98 had just come out and we upgraded the family PC. It was Age of Empires that got me hooked on graphics and design in general. I was amazed with all the little game tile designs.
Some years and many many games later I designed my first website for a game. It was comical and I still remember what it looked like. That led to more website designs all throughout school. When those started making money I thought hmm maybe there’s something to it.