page was first attracted to computers when he was six years old as he was able to "play with the stuff lying around"—first-generation personal computers—that had been left by his parents he became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor" his older brother also taught him to take things apart and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked" he said that "from a very early age i also realized i wanted to invent things so i became really interested in technology and business probably from when i was  i knew i was going to start a company eventually"