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What spurred your interest in computers?

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LoqT

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Well the title explains the question, but I was thinking about how I got interested in computers at all. I remember in elementary school the teachers had us working in the old Apple ][Gs playing number munchers, odell lake, and Cross Country USA (That horrible, horrible driving game used as a device to teach geography, and trade.) Those experiences never really drew that much interest with me... I had played stuff like Doom and Wolfenstein and it really made my jaw drop, but it wasn't until I saw my friends playing Heretic over the modem that I KNEW I had to get a computer.... my parents were working minimum wage jobs back then as we had just moved here from Canada, but I convinced them (The whole I'm gonna use the computer for school excuse). Computers have become a huge chunk of my life since then. I was wondering what really pulled you in originally?
 
Oh man, I remember BBSs!!! Hahaha it was gaming that got me on BBS's too. When Worldgroup server had that multiplayer game client that allowed 4 player Doom over the BBS (Don't remember the name for the server software but the client that we had to download was called SirDOOM).... which evolved into SirIPX which emulated a LAN so that you could play games). I would stay up practically every night til 3 or 4 playing those damned games!
 
Got a old comp that had DOS and nothing on it. I was either 7 or 8 and the only games I had where on REAL FLOPPY DISKS 😀 and I had to learn how to install and etc.
 
I started for mIRC, back in 1995. But several people here are the ones who really have gotten me into learning about computers. I realize now that they are not just for chatting and games. Not that I use them for anything other than that still mind you. 😉
 
Damn LoqT you were freaking lucky! All the BBSes here were only 1 node (that didn't stop LORD from kicking major ass though 🙂 )

I did play quite a bit of DOOM 1 on 1 via modem play with my friend though... good time 😀
 
When I was three (or four?) my grandfather sat me down at our 286 and taught me aspects of DOS...I lost interest in the productive aspect for a while (played games, didnt learn enough), then resumed it thanks to games-working with boot disks and conventional memory.

I remember that it was "Wayne Gretzky Hockey" that required a boot disk, and I listened as my dad called tech support. Guess that scared me enough to convince me to learn how to make my own boot disks 🙂
 
I dont know... I just know I have been hooked for as long as I can remember...

I *THINK* I started like most guys.... GAMES! 🙂
 
boot disks... that reminds me of when I got Sim City 2000 for my birthday... won't bother posting it tho... I remember too many memories of the first time playing PC games 😀
 
WarGames with Matthew Broderick, really. And the fact that they looked so nice back in the days, so future and unlike anything else and they were really hard to use which made it feel exclusive and cool.
 
My dad bought an 8086 for $14k when I was about 8, and I learned basic DOS stuff to play "Reader Rabbit" among other cool games (hey that game was dope, shuddap 🙂). I naturally began to spawn an interest in all things computers 🙂
 
I thought the keyboard was a "music keyboard".

I was 9. 😛🙂😀


One month latter, I formated c:
 
My uncle gave me my first computer when I was 8.
And amiga 500 I believe, shortly upgraded to a 1000.
Just loved it from the first time I used it at home.
School computers sucked, green CRT. nothing to do but school work 😀
 
I read an article at work 12 years ago about how addictive MUSH's and MUDs were. Sounded good to me. Next day I bought a computer and hooked up with a local ISP and BBS.


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When I was about 8 I accidentally formatted my father's 286, (640K RAM, 20Mb HDD, Monochrome monitor) and been interested in it ever since. I don't know how I did it, but the fact remains that I destroyed a lot of my father's work 😱
 
Man! I loved Cross Country too! It was the best game for that old mac... btw, did you guys have the big laminated map to use while playing it?

The interest, for me, was wanting to get Transport Tycoon to play in Win 3.1 (instead of dos, where I couldn't get sound) on a 486 dx/33 with 8 meg of ram, 2x cd, soundblaster 16 isa (which, indentially, I still use in my second comp today), and a 14.4 modem.
 
Newbies that post three new topics in a single day have some explaining to do. Were you a member of AnandTech when you became a WMC? What was your handle? Why didn't you keep it?
 
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