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.