| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
gamefreak
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 31, 2006
Age: 18
Posts: 829
Location: Spring Hill, Florida
|
 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
 |
|
| Since 1994 when the Preschool i went to had Macintosh 68K`s in the classroom. I mainly played Carmen Sandiego. Got my 1st E-Mail Address in 2005 and got even vetter with computers since. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Arenlor
Emu Egg
Joined: May 01, 2008
Age: 19
Posts: 2
Location: /home/arenlor
|
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:54 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm 19 and have been using computers since I was 4 back in 1993/4 and have had a laptop since I was 7, internet was available to me since I first used them. Though I had only used M$ until last summer when I started using Linux, so some may say I only used computers since last summer ^_^.
_________________
I do not have a problem, and if you argue with that you will have one. |
|
| Back to top |
|
amaren
Sea Gull
Joined: Apr 24, 2008
Posts: 211
Location: wallowing in bed
|
| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 4:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
I played around on my dad's Sun around 1990 (4 years old), and we had electronic word processors at school which I was called upon to fix occasionally, but I didn't have proper access until 1997 when we got an old 486 at home. It barely managed and internet connection, I mostly used it for DOS games and teaching myself qbasic. I'm very proud of this next fact: it actually succumbed to Y2K!! The email program we were using couldn't deal with the big dates.
Early 2000 we got a properly internet capable machine and I was instantly addicted 
_________________
The rule for today.
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow. |
|
| Back to top |
|
CrimsonEdge
Heir to the Stars
Joined: Feb 23, 2007
Age: 18
Posts: 1125
Location: Somewhere in Time
|
| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:18 am Post subject: |
|
|
I started using computers in 1995 (I was 5 at the time) and have been using them ever since.
_________________
"It's not the great who are strong, it's the strong who are great." -Albel Nox (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time) |
|
| Back to top |
|
sim
Velociraptor
Joined: Apr 20, 2008
Age: 18
Posts: 428
|
| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:01 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I've been using computers since I was 2 or 3, the internet since I was 7. |
|
| Back to top |
|
OverlyIntense
Butterfly
Joined: Apr 27, 2008
Posts: 10
|
| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I smiled when someone mentioned they couldn't remember when they first got the Internet.
My first computer was a Tandy 1000, and I had no idea what I was doing. I knew how to type mysterious commands that started games, and that was all I cared about.
My first real computer was a Hewlett Packard 486DX2. I still remember the day I installed 128Kb of L2 cache in the form of DIP chips, and I realized what a HUGE performance increase it provided. I e-mailed Hewlett Packard a nasty e-mail telling them how irresponsible they were to not have installed it in the first place.   Then I installed a Pentium overdrive CPU and I've been hooked on computer hardware ever since.
I'm proud that I still use the case from the first computer I built, which was back in 1997 when I was 19. The first CPU was a Cyrix DX100 which I overclocked to 120MHz on a 40MHz Front Side Bus. I still think highly of the Cyrix brand, because it was the best at the time. Yea that's right! I'm restarting a flame war that ended 8 years ago!
In 1994 my Dad got the Internet. I remember being confused by what the Internet was. I didn't realize that PRODIGY wasn't really the Internet, and neither did my pops. All I really cared about was feeding my porn addiction.  It took me a year to finally realize PRODIGY wasn't the Internet, and there were was no nudity on it. In 1998 I moved to Denver and I'm proud that I was one of the first to get DSL. |
|
| Back to top |
|
kip
Velociraptor
Joined: Mar 14, 2007
Age: 21
Posts: 452
Location: Las Vegas NV USA
|
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: |
|
|
I started taking them apart at 4. Didn't really find use for them beyond that till I was 8, when my mum got my sis and I emails on her old Mac. Ah... back when AOL was ALMOST passable as decent 
I'm 21 now... so thats 17 years taking them apart, and only 13 actually doing something with them |
|
| Back to top |
|
naughtyrobot
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Feb 04, 2008
Age: 21
Posts: 44
|
| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
|
|
15+ Years, Started in the early 90's, with a 486 and some 5 inch floppies.... Had my own computer at 10
Today I manage over a thousand servers and a 3Gigabit WAN at a Tier 1 enterprise data center... Clients include Social networking web sites, venture firms, e-commerce applications, content providers, and government contractors...
I am only a few years out from being a full time security consultant and a technologist |
|
| Back to top |
|
deep-techno
Star Power Maniac
Joined: Jan 08, 2006
Posts: 1018
Location: Swindon, England.
|
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: |
|
|
I've been using computers since I was 4. My dad introduced me to this Dorling Kindersly's Dictionary software, that really helped me to start talking (knowing how people with AS/autism don't speak until a later age).
_________________
If the phrase "you are what you eat" is correct, technically we must all be cannibals. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Ornithocheirus
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: May 09, 2008
Age: 158
Posts: 26
|
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Since 2000 at least. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
