How did you get into computers

[two4trippn]

For some, it was like going straight to the nipple from birth, others needed more persuasion. For me, it was the dawn of the Pentium processor. I had the game consoles growing up and the old Commodore 64. Proceeded through some Apples and then started drinking way too much! The mid '90s arrived and I tweaked some interest with some Windows 3.1 stuff and the dawning of multimedia (Pentiums and Win 95). A buddy of mine had Nascar from Papyrus running in hi res mode on his 486dx4/100 and I was hooked. The potential analness tof using the paintkit to customize any car per pixel was intriguing. I broke down and bought a Packard Bell Pentium 75 system with a smokin 8mb ram and an 850gb hd drive. Remember 8mb of SIMMS back then was close to $300. I was set. 4 months later lightening struck the 140+ old oak tree and fried my modem, motherboard, Directv, surge protector etc. After some reading up, I decided to open her up, saved the hard drive and rebuilt. Now I've got more PCs than hair!

[Gibby]

I used to use a phillips screw driver to take off the cover, but now I just use a sledge hammer. Sure you have to buy a new computer but ah the release of frustration against your old machine.. :D

[twosheds]

I taught myself how to program on my parents Apple IIe at age 8. Didn't build my own computers until I was about 15, when I leaned it during an internship.

I've played a lot of games over the years, mostly strategy and role playing. Nowadays I don't play that much anymore. I spend so much time at the computer at work, I rather read a book or go for a walk.

[Jayhawk]

I had an Apple 2c and taught myself that. Though we had it before the Stupid bowls

[NoCtUrNaL]

My first computer experiences started around "95", I vaguely remember the specs were something like 500MB hard drive and about 12 or 24 MB's of ram. I remember my brother would bring me the entire Microsoft Office Suite from work....on like 25 or so 1.44MB floppy disks. (I had to reinstall it many times because I was constantly reformatting my hard dive so that it ran at optimum speed). Man, that was fun to load.

My brother also bought me this game called D00M back then, I didn't know what it was at the time, but I installed it and played the crap out of it. My palms would literally sweat from anxiety and I would occasionally jump when something would pop out of nowwhere...it was an unbelievably immersive game.

Let's talk internet connection...hahahaha!

I started with dial-up. Actually, my first internet connection was using AOL and CompuServe via dial-up. I would go into the chat rooms and basically make fun of everyone. Horny geek guys hitting on lonely fat girls. I forget exactly what my connection speed was, something like 14.4 or 28.8bps? All I know is it would take about 12 hours to download one 480x320 45KB nude girly picture. Usually I'd get about mid breast and lose my connection. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[NoCtUrNaL]

BTW...speaking of the "olden days" of computers...HERE'S (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php) a cool website. Type in a web address after http:// and then hit "Take Me Back" and it'll bring up some archived web pages save for missing graphics.

Example: ESPN's frontpage from Dec 11, 1998 (http://web.archive.org/web/19981212013850/espn.sportszone.com/).

[nehemiah]

free porn sealed the deal for me.

[Woody]

I became fascinated with computers back in the 80's when we'd play computer games in the school computer lab. They had Apple IIe's there.. and some of my friends would sneak in games.. like Karateka and Prince of Persia... those games kicked so much ass back then. .

My parents bought me a Commodore 64 and over the next decade I'd collect hundreds of games and play the hell out of them. Along the way I'd get a Mac and a Packard Bell (486SX/25mhz, 4meg Ram, 210meg Hard drive) and play the hell out of that. The 'Leisure Suit Larry' series was my favorite back in those days along with Doom, Terminal Velocity and Duke Nukem 3D... the 'Alone in the Dark' series kicked alot of ass too.

And it goes on and on to this day. :niterider

[35Pete]

free porn sealed the deal for me.

Isn't the the reason for them in the first place?

[Guy Incognito]

With a screw driver.

[BanditsRock11]

With a screw driver.

:rofl:

[Gibby]

With a screw driver.

did you come up with this idea all by yourself or did you have help from other posters. :D

[Gibby]

free porn sealed the deal for me.

you too? :D

[two4trippn]

The 'Leisure Suit Larry' series was my favorite back in those days along with Doom, Terminal Velocity and Duke Nukem 3D... the 'Alone in the Dark' series kicked alot of ass too.

:niteriderDuke Nukem - I'm ready to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.

[Woody]

Word... taking a piss and handing money to strippers was cutting edge.. hahah.. :niterider


Duke Nukem - I'm ready to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.