What Got You Into Computers?

[VenkiPhy6]

Back when I was a kid(8 years old), I had a really really bad PC( Dunno the specs correctly. But it was something like 32MB of RAM, no expansion cards, Pentium 4 processor etc..) and I had to game in it.  :mellow:  I was so irritated by it that I was motivated to learn more about PC building, build a good one and game on it all day loong!!! But I couldn't do much since my brother was there then and I had no control over such things    :angry:  So I learnt and learnt and waited and waited and built my first PC in 2012(when my brother moved to another place..freedom tastes sweet!) ! That is the build I have ever done I am using it right now... hoping to upgrade soon. Interestingly, when I built the PC in 2012 I didn't have an internet connection at home!!!! I did all my research in my mom's mobile phone which didn't even have a touch screen with just a 2G connection. Also I didn't belong to any forums whatsoever!!! All I could do was google searches........ But still I came up with a decent build(or maybe I think it is decent ) and I learnt a loooootttt. Another interesting point is that, though it is gaming that got me into PC building, I never gamed that much in my first build. High school pushed me away from gaming and I lost interest as days went by and now I play only occassionally.

 

One thing I can never forget is, the amount of satisfaction that I got when the PC worked :rolleyes: . It is that satisfaction that keeps me motivated to keep learning more about (what I would like to call as 'the art of') PC building nowadays.

[KayTees]

The fact I needed to upgrade my shit. Also because I like my things fabricated.

[Pugs501]

My Thumb Screws

[NeatSquidYT]

My Dad likes computers to an extent (Apple fanboy), and I guess I just eventually found out about PC gaming through bring a console gamer, and that got me interested in hardware. I only really started to properly learn in June 2014

[The Toaster]

Buying a ps4, and realizing how crap it was.

[Royal Vengeance]

Wanted a cheap computer to game on , watched a few Linus vids, went to a shop to have one built , they screwed up bad , filled my watch list full of Linus videos , ordered a slew of parts, built a system , then another for a friend and so on since then. Over 20+ builds done and I'm enjoying every one of them.

[snoopy6489]

My grandfather is the reason i'm in to computers.

[IndaLight]

My YouTube channel. 

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

Toshiba laptop from Best Buy. I think you have an idea of what might the outcome be. Anyways, my dad has a friend that is a techie, and he builds computers for a living. I got intrested in building computers hecause of him and I got where I am today.

[farhanorakzai]

Linus's unboxing of the gtx 680. It looked cool, so I watched some more videos on it, and the next thing I know, I'm building a pc

[theandrewhead]

When i was younger i would dismantle whatever i could get my hands on (VCRs, DVD players, etc.) eventually this progressed to old computers that i would buy at a local charity auction that happened every month. They were usually Pentium 1s or 2s ran Windows 98 and were outdated and slow (this was 2006) eventually i started swapping components around between the systems and making systems that i thought to be dead function again. The rest, as they say, is history

[DRGHaloShadow]

My PC addiction started with getting my first console. I was ~6 and got an xbox (and later a 360). I used to play Halo on them all the time with my moms ex-boyfriend. About 4 and a half years ago my mom met her husband and for my birthday they got my my first laptop. I started watching YouTube about computer games (mostly Minecraft) and talking about computers to my step-dad (at this time only my moms boyfriend). Maybe a year or two ago my step-dad was building his own computer and I wanted to watch/help, so I did. From that point on I slowly merged from a console gamer to PC gamer and was wanting to make my own PC. I now have this PC it is the first PC that I built and I did most of it myself with some help with partpicking from my step-dad.

EDIT: My step-dad, while looking into parts for my PC found LTT and I have been watching them ever since.

[SNES4Life]

It all started when my dad bought a brand new Compaq Presario 5510( I'm assuming it was this model but yeah photo below lol)! He was playing one of the best game back then! Solitaire! lol But yeah ever since, I would play solitaire for countless hours and messed around with it! Until I did something to it and then my uncle had to reformat it every now and then. I was so scared when I messed it up and ever since i've been quite cautious and got myself into computers! haha

 

So much memories! And those side speakers tho! They don't come like that anymore! haha

 

[ReliantChris]

Bought Fallout 3 for pc and couldn't run it at the time, so started research into upgrading. Then I learned about Crysis...

[morriscey]

I got into it when my dad first lugged home an old government PC from his office. a 386! Wolfenstein and all the glorious shareware $1 floppies! I was curious enough I was able to mess it up a couple times. 

 

Eventually the office upgraded to pentiums and we got the 486, and I remember it being better, but it was a giant ass compaq that would shock the crap out of my fingers if i touched right above the power button. eventually got bored with it, because it had no sound card, I didnt wanna buy one, and even the nes let alone the genesis, was better sounding.

 

A few years later my mom gave me her old pentium 2, when she got a pentium 3. I spent hours on that thing playing starcraft and C&C, it didn't have a sound card, so I had to get one for ~$80. I wrecked that a couple times too, but in the process learned quite a bit. 

 

Had access to a few more PCs over the years, including a garbage laptop that taught me not to rely on laptops as your only machine since they're so specialized, and decided to build my own PCs from then on out. NCIX had a really great deal on an athalon dual core @2.5,  and 512mb HD3850. It was prebuilt, but there was a no OS option so I got that and figured I'd just open it up, make sure all was to my liking and close it up, and install windows.  

 

It came, I tore it apart and there was a 256MB card in it! wtf? I contacted support, and the man himself said it was his fault, and that NCIX will absolutely replace the 256 card for the 512. It was a typo and was supposed to be the 256 card not the 512, which is why it was about $60 cheaper than it should have been (80 if they gave me the same brand card). Then there was a few more messages back and forth with people who weren't Linus, and they wanted me to pay the difference, until I made it very clear I wasn't paying anything extra. Lol Linus was basically the only person who made good and didn't try to screw me over in the whole ordeal of getting what was listed on my receipt.  

 

Since then I've built multiple AMD and intel builds for work and home, and the old dual core / 3850 still has life in it as a media center with an autobot logo carved in the side .

[MblaZe7run]

Dad told me if I wanted to go to my tech center for carpentry, I was going to drop out and work for him. So, I decided to go for computer tech!

[lukky211111]

porn and video games.

[Mujteba]

Austin Evans.

 

And then I discovered LTT  :wub:

[TurtleOnSteroids]

I started off playing video games and wanting to be able to play more grpahicaly intense games which pushed me into learning out computers through the necessity of know what I should upgrade to with my meagre allowance.

[teeejay]

I was playing game at first, but I got into computers.. I mean building etc. thanks to this forum!

[slightlyjaded]

My mother brought one of the school's microbee's home with her for the weekend.

After that it was all downhill from there...

Curse you montezuma's revenge (the game, not the upset tummy)

[GregButcher]

I was quite literally born into it, both my parents have programmer-mathematician degrees, so we always had computers, and of course we always had a few games on them. Basically I learnt to use DOS before i was able read or write

[Sir Asvald]

My dad. He used to build PCs for customers. Also he used to host websites for people. Now, I've started following in his footsteps. at the age of 12 I got into PCs.

[GeneralTheoryOfBadassery]

Games !

My first PC setup :-

Pentium 4

256MB ram

40 GB HDD

CRT display

Some of the awesome games I played :-

Elder scrolls 1&2

Doom

Dave

Wolf 3D

Spider man

Age of empire conquerors

Sky ( something ... Track ?? )

Virtue cop

Future cop

It used to run em like charm

[Wind1000100]

I got into computer designing and building after a friend started. That's about it.