Before that, during the war in Croatia, I worked for the military programming mobile radio stations and transmitters so that the soldiers could communicate with one another and with headquarters. After the war, Croatia was a disaster. Our economy crashed, and because of the former government, foreign countries didn't want to invest in us. The main problems in the IT industry are that we need more telecom companies, because at the moment we have only one and that company has a monopoly on the market. We also have a shortage of ISPs, because we had to decrease the prices of connecting to the Internet.
Connections are still expensive and they're also through leased lines.
We don't have ISDN and Frame Relay for commercial usage, not to mention ADSL, XDSL, ATM and other higher technology. When I was 12 years old, my father bought me a Commodore 64, so that got me started. I went on to study computers at Mathematic-Informatic high school in Dubrovnik. I then studied economy and did my final project on Internet banking and e-money, but I had to learn it on my own. Classes would certainly help, but I think self-learning is better.