Read about Smalltalk-76 in Scientific American.
As a result wrote an OO interpreter in FORTH and an OO pre-compiler for FORTRAN back in 1978.
Predicted that all programming would be OO by 1985.
Now using Squeak to combine my interests in Puppetry and Animation. The result is an animation tool that exploits the ancient traditional tricks of the trade of puppeteers to breath life into animated objects.