what age did you start becoming a big computer dork?

[jsbush]

Around 7-8 lol.

Build my first computer in grade 4, I was 9 I think.

 

[Maverick]

5 or 6...I used to play games on my dad's 8088

 

[Danman]

Probably around 7 or 8. My Dad just bought a Gateway 486 computer with the first 1x CD Drive. I thought that was the coolest thing. I played Doom which I thought that was the scariest game on earth and I really started to get in computer a couple years later. I am now 17 btw.

 

[Swag1138]

At about 12. Playing old Ultma Underworld games and stuff.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Age 28, built my first Athlon system!

 

[Ulfwald]

29

 

[pac1085]

1991, so I was 5 years old. I still remember my old compaq 287 (math coprocesser!) with a giant 10mb bernoulli drive attached to it Was great.

 

[Spamela]

as soon as i could get my hands on one.

i did mainframe programming in 1973 at age 18, but you weren't allowed to see or touch the computer at that time.

i suppose that started it, although the experiece was major suck by contemporary standards.

 

[ErmanC]

I was born one. Just had to wait for the hardware to catch up to me.

 

[acidvoodoo]

got my first in grade 4 i thin, so i wasssssssssss 9, just used it for games and stuff. in grade 7 i built my first k6-2 system. just recently built my first entire system, adn now in grade 10

although my friends say i'm a 'wizz' not a geek/nerd/dork. dunno whats better

 

[UberDave]

12... i'm 19 now

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: maladroit

5? I was lucky if I could wipe my own ass when I was 5. Something tells me you're being less than honest.

You don't have to believe me, but I was a child prodigy at that age. I had a 162 IQ, I could do 5 digit multiplication in my head, and was told that I could attend college at 9. I'm not bragging, because it doesn't mean anything now, but I don't like being called a liar. If you couldn't wipe your ass at 5, that's your problem, not mine.

 

[Tripleshot]

The genisis of my thirst for knowledge began at 11 with my first crystal radio.(yes, a wire connected to a rock let me listen to a cross town radio station) I have been facinated with all things electronic since.

I am 52.

 

[Lucky]

I was interested in computers since I got my apple II at like 11...but i wasnt a dork until I found anandtech. probably....20?

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: maladroit

5? I was lucky if I could wipe my own ass when I was 5. Something tells me you're being less than honest.

You don't have to believe me, but I was a child prodigy at that age. I had a 162 IQ, I could do 5 digit multiplication in my head, and was told that I could attend college at 9. I'm not bragging, because it doesn't mean anything now, but I don't like being called a liar. If you couldn't wipe your ass at 5, that's your problem, not mine.

Was your mother struck by lighting when you were in the womb by any chance? :Q



Sorry, I saw Powder this morning.

 

[Beau]

When I was 12 I set up my first network, authored my first website, and learned basic.

 

[Evadman]

When I was 13 I had set up my first BBS with 2 lines. ( both the home lines ) my parents loved me I built ( yes, built as in soldered ) a heathkit from radio shack when I was 12 IIRC.

 

[virusag11]

I started when I was 18. My parents refused to buy me a computer so I had to do it myself.

 

[sciencetoy]

When I was 18 - that's 1967, went to college (music major), discovered the dude in the physics lab who was tinkering with electronic music (all tubes and wires then), we built a lab and got approval & grant $$ to connect it to the time-share mainframe, remember punch cards? I'd already learned Fortran in h.s. - back then, when you took a programming class you did it all in your head and then turned in your cards in the end, if the program ran you passed. As I recall we had to pay extra for terminal time, too.

But making the electronic music lab work was what took me from average to dork. (now of course, my kid's $2 electronic toy has more capability than what we spent years and miles of wires to do by hand)

Ah, those were the days.

Edit: Geez, I'm old. Anyway, the extra money in Fortran class was to pay the ladies who fed the punch cards into the machines! And I had to go all the way to Cleveland (60 miles) to find a class in Fortran.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Lucky

Sorry, I saw Powder this morning.

Probably some combination of genetics, lack of anything to do where I lived, and the fact that my parents actually read to me instead of sitting me down infront of the TV all day.

As far as most of that, it's no longer applicable. I can't do that level of math in my head anymore, I have a worthless memory, and I dropped out of college.

 

[SCSIfreek]

22

Boy those were the days!!! Warcraft 2 battle in the computer labs with 8 others!!!!


--Scsi

 

[Supermercado]

I didn't really get into them until I was a freshman in high school, so I was about 14. I'm 20 now.