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Zuckerberg created, Edward and his family could also send messages between the computers in their home. One night, Zuckerberg used Zucknet to send a gag message to his sister Donna while she was doing her homework. The message said that a computer virus would cause the computer she was on to explode in thirty seconds! COMPUTER CLASS Zuckerberg’s parents realized their son had a gift for computer programming, so they hired a tutor to teach Zuckerberg even more. David Newman, a software programmer, began visiting Zuckerberg’s home each week to teach him more about computer programming and creating software. When interviewed later in his life, Newman told New Yorker magazine that Zuckerberg was

Zuckerberg’s skill with programming was extraordinary for a young person, but also for a time when fewer people owned and understood how to use computers.

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