How old were you when you "got geek"?

[Dragnov]

7th grade when I got my $2000 Packard Bell system. :disgust:

 

[yllus]

Hehe, I recently did a search for my oldest Usenet postings and found one dated Oct 1, 1995. 14 and cruising the Net with the pioneers baby. 😛 Started on computers in general much earlier than that though.

HC, what technical area interests you? Most people don't consider the ability to assemble a PC grounds for admission into the geek nation - it goes a lot further than that, but I don't know if I can define it precisely.

 

[fredtam]

I'm 30 and have had a computer since I was ~12 but had no real desire or time to figure out how they work until about a year ago. I don't know how technical your wanting to get (I'm not making processors in my basement) but everything was easy to learn. I was an electronics tech in the military so that probably helped a little. Now I have become bored with hardware/software and usually only post in OT. I look at the other forums and go "oh, not that question again" and leave. I might get interested again when some of the newer/different hardware comes out.

 

[Schadenfreude]

My brother's the geek of the family . . . I mean, I'm a dork, dont' get me wrong, but with computers/electronics, I'm useless . . ..

 

[MournSanity]

5...When I got my first NES. N3rD0/\/\ 4 l1F!!11!!!

 

[bradruth]

Got my NES when I was 3 and I've been gaming since then. I didn't get into computer hardware until '98 or so.

I'm 20 now, btw.

 

[FuZoR]

got geek.. hmmm
When i was 10-11. I screwed around my dads 386 when i was in 5-6th grade. Mostly playing shareware games like Keen, Duke and Doom.

20 now.