The story starts back in 1992 when we (Marc Roelofs and Roland Stilting) were still at school, following one of the first dedicated ICT studies in the Netherlands. Back then ICT was a completely different world: A PC was the tablet of today, DOS was king of the operating system, we were taught to program in Turbo Pascal and C++ and wrote our papers in Word Perfect 5.1.

We were always busy tweaking and upgrading our PC’s with new components and one day got the idea to make a business out of it. Therefore, with the help of our families, because we weren’t even 18 so we couldn’t own our own business yet, we started Starware.