How Did You Become Interested in Computers?

OmegaWolf747 · 2025-01-25T00:57:04+00:00

For me, my true love affair with computers began 31 years ago in my tenth grade touch typing class, when the clunky old IBM electric typewriters we'd been using were spirited away over Christmas vacation and replaced with a LAN of IBM PS/2 Model 25s. To a modern person, those machines are clunky old beige boxes with less processing power than a modern smartwatch, but to my teenage self, those things were space age!

Zer0Cool

i was about 3 and a half, mom brought home a new emachines 386 box from the best buy. her and dad sat me down in front of it and told me to learn how it works.

i guess it worked out.

Rob

Sometime in ’96/'97 my dad purchased an HP Pentium 75mhz computer and connected it to Compuserve ISP (also later AT&T and Prodigy ISP). Sometime in ’98/'99 we got AOL dialup and I just started hanging out on AOL and playing games and what not. By 2001/2002 I volunteering at a local computer repair shop where I was building computers. Time flies.

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