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roygerdodger
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Encyclopedia
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I've been using computers since before there was an internet.
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MrSinister
Sanity Is Madness
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I started using the internet seriously about ten years ago, when I first went to university. And I never looked back 
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Belfast
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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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Kiski
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1992 (since I was 3)
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Aaron_Mason
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Since the age of 4, playing with the ol' VIC 20.
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digger1
finding my way
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agmoie
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lau
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Depending on what you count as a computer, I think either 1966 or 1959.
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tomadao
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ToadOfSteel
This is the right planet... out there, somewhere..
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| 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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nodice1996
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computers in 1999 at age 3 and th internet in 2002 when I got my first email address.
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twoshots
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| lau wrote: | | Depending on what you count as a computer, I think either 1966 or 1959. |
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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Betzalel
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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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LostInEmulation
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| 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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