Before He Became A Millionaire At 27, Elon Musk Was Doing This

"In early 90s, I wrote a multitasker for PCs that spoofed the CPU and CD-ROM to act in parallel," wrote Elon Musk.

Before he became a millionaire at the age of 27, before his company SpaceX transformed space exploration and before Tesla became one of the world's most valuable car companies, its founder Elon Musk worked in video games. In the early Nineties, Elon Musk was working at a video game company in California's Palo Alto, writing a multitasker that could read video from a CD while running a game at the same time. "Ancient times," - he called it in a tweet today, responding to a throwback picture shared by a Twitter user.  In the early 90s, @elonmusk worked at a videogame company in Palo Alto, where he wrote a multitasker for PC in C++ which could basically read video from a CD while running a game at the same time. The name of that videogame company was Rocket Science. Fate loves irony. pic.twitter.com/qAtmgow8MS That was my night job. Day job was working on ruthenium-tantalum ultracapacitors at Pinnacle Research. In early 90s, I wrote a multitasker for PCs that spoofed the CPU & CD-ROM to act in parallel, so could read video continuously while player sprite moved smoothly. Required C++, assembly & direct flipping of CPU registers. That company's name was Rocket Science. Fate loves irony. "In the early 90s, @elonmusk worked at a videogame company in Palo Alto, where he wrote a multitasker for PC in C++ which could basically read video from a CD while running a game at the same time," the Twitter user wrote, sharing a throwback picture which shows a young Elon Musk smiling for the camera. The name of the company, interestingly enough, was Rocket Science. "Fate loves irony," Mr Musk has joked in the past while talking about his brief stint in the gaming industry.  The entrepreneur co-founded web software company Zip2 in 1995, which would go on to make him a millionaire. He also founded X.com in 1999, which later became PayPal.