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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:48 pm    Post subject: How long you've been using computers/the internet? Reply with quote

For me, probably since 1996 or 1997.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been using computers since before there was an internet.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I started using the internet seriously about ten years ago, when I first went to university. And I never looked back Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Satisfied to be relatively "late adopter" of new technology, am not at all on cutting edge nor adept with machinery, appliances, the whole computer culture. Prefer to let other people try out novelty first, then watch what happens-before I venture to join in.
Signed up for email on someone else's computer in late 2003.
Got computer (and online on regular basis) in early 2004.
Found WP in mid-2005.
Went from never being on computer or internet to opposite extreme: now "the box" (use of computer) plus being online has taken over my life, for both good & ill.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1992 (since I was 3)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since the age of 4, playing with the ol' VIC 20.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1995
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1995
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depending on what you count as a computer, I think either 1966 or 1959.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1996
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ToadOfSteel
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

my first computer usage was when I was 4 years old and I hacked my mother's computer (specifically, reconfiguring the config file to disable the middle mouse button) I'm 20 now, so that was 16 years ago or 1992...
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

computers in 1999 at age 3 and th internet in 2002 when I got my first email address.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lau wrote:
Depending on what you count as a computer, I think either 1966 or 1959.

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Sometimes I like to think I'm hot stuff because I cut my teeth on an 8086 that didn't have a hard drive, but you, sir, are 1337.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1985 with my first computer a Tandy Color Computer 2 with an audio cassette for data nd program storage and later a FD-501 disk drive. I still have the system in good working condition today.

I was 5 years old then and I have so far collected about 28 computers over the years. ( >30 if i didn't have to throw out a few very large systems that i didn't have space for)
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kiski wrote:
1992 (since I was 3)


Hello Captain Tux! I really like this avatar. I also used the PC rather early already. The first PC, I had access to was a 286 and at the time, I used it, I could barely read.
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