Tldr: Back in the stone age, I was dumb and hated pcs, now I don't.
I was 14 I think. I was the expert in vcr cleaning and maintaining, and the sega, ps1 at the time, when my brother who works in the IT brought home a pc. He was showing me how cool it was and all, I started using it, but it'd lock up or disconnect from the internet, and I'd hate it since it was too complicated for me. My brother would try to explain how to fix it. But I was too dumb to care, and would just ask him to fix the stupid thing. Why isn't this thing as simple as the ps1? I would ask.
When I was 20 I moved to the states for school, needed a pc for homeworks and stuff, bought a used windows ME pc from a friend who had tons of hacking software installed. He asked me if I could reinstall windows? I knew nothing about pcs, so he printed the instructions for me, I didn't bother to reinstall windows. He left the country. After a few days, the pc decided not to open internet explorer, which was the only thing I knew how to operate. I took the pc to a repair shop, they charged me $80, a few weeks later, it did the same thing. I took it back to the shop, paid another $80. It did it again after a few weeks, but I was broke, and didn't have any knowledge of money management.
All of my friends at the time knew nothing about pcs. I needed the thing fixed, so I'd go to the school's library and type in/ search for the error code, print a solution and wait till I get home to try it. It didn't fix it, so I'd need to wait till the following day to visit the library to search some more. But this time I actually got smarter and printed 5 or 6 different solutions I found online.
One of the solutions fixed the issue, and I had internet explorer up and running, I had a great feeling of accomplishment. So, I started visiting tech forums and reading about people's issues they were facing with their pcs, and try to remember the correct answers so in case it happens to me, and I had no internet access at home, I wouldn't need to wait till the following day.
It started to become an obsession, after a while I started fixing my friends laptops & pcs, it was great, having the ability to get their computers fixed, I didn't want any of them to have a broken computer, seeing how I hated the feeling of a broken pc, and learned a valuable lesson.
I found the pc shop receipt under my mattress a couple of years later, they charged me $80 for "resetting internet explorer settings".
I was 14 I think. I was the expert in vcr cleaning and maintaining, and the sega, ps1 at the time, when my brother who works in the IT brought home a pc. He was showing me how cool it was and all, I started using it, but it'd lock up or disconnect from the internet, and I'd hate it since it was too complicated for me. My brother would try to explain how to fix it. But I was too dumb to care, and would just ask him to fix the stupid thing. Why isn't this thing as simple as the ps1? I would ask.
When I was 20 I moved to the states for school, needed a pc for homeworks and stuff, bought a used windows ME pc from a friend who had tons of hacking software installed. He asked me if I could reinstall windows? I knew nothing about pcs, so he printed the instructions for me, I didn't bother to reinstall windows. He left the country. After a few days, the pc decided not to open internet explorer, which was the only thing I knew how to operate. I took the pc to a repair shop, they charged me $80, a few weeks later, it did the same thing. I took it back to the shop, paid another $80. It did it again after a few weeks, but I was broke, and didn't have any knowledge of money management.
All of my friends at the time knew nothing about pcs. I needed the thing fixed, so I'd go to the school's library and type in/ search for the error code, print a solution and wait till I get home to try it. It didn't fix it, so I'd need to wait till the following day to visit the library to search some more. But this time I actually got smarter and printed 5 or 6 different solutions I found online.
One of the solutions fixed the issue, and I had internet explorer up and running, I had a great feeling of accomplishment. So, I started visiting tech forums and reading about people's issues they were facing with their pcs, and try to remember the correct answers so in case it happens to me, and I had no internet access at home, I wouldn't need to wait till the following day.
It started to become an obsession, after a while I started fixing my friends laptops & pcs, it was great, having the ability to get their computers fixed, I didn't want any of them to have a broken computer, seeing how I hated the feeling of a broken pc, and learned a valuable lesson.
I found the pc shop receipt under my mattress a couple of years later, they charged me $80 for "resetting internet explorer settings".
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