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Computers made dispatchers’ jobs much easier. These dispatchers used short phrases to communicate vital information to people in emergency situations. Their way of communicating would eventually help Dorsey come up with the ideas behind Twitter.

of eight, but merely using the machines was not enough for him; he wanted to understand how they worked. Dorsey taught himself how to build computer programs at a time when his fellow students didn’t even know how to use a computer. His fascination with trains went hand-in-hand with his interest in technology. Dorsey decorated his room with posters of maps and trains, all the while thinking about how the city was connected in one large grid. He began tracking the movement of police cars and other emergency vehicles using public information and a special computer program he wrote himself.

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