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For me I thought that all computers displayed there password in the password bar because our password was password.

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cogwheels... 

 

dismantled my first computer while I was 6,5 years old due to curiosity how it works... was pretty disappointed not sseing any moving parts inside....

 

(it was an Atari 800 XL)

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Ryan Paradis said:

For me I thought that all computers displayed there password in the password bar because our password was password.

I heard that cd's were optical data, so I thought the entire lego game I was playing was stored in tiny little images on the disc. 

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5 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

cogwheels... 

 

dismantled my first computer while I was 6,5 years old due to curiosity how it works... was pretty disappointed not sseing any moving parts inside....

 

(it was an Atari 800 XL)

 

 

that reminded me of the time i took apart our old broke windows 95 computer by hitting it with a hammer and nail

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1 minute ago, Ryan Paradis said:

that reminded me of the time i took apart our old broke windows 95 computer by hitting it with a hammer and nail

Never did that. reassembled the 800 XL and used it for another 4 years until I sold it to a second hand store to get some cash for the then C128 I had. 

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Computers could run PS1 games, and vice versa. Both CDs, right?

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4 hours ago, Ryan Paradis said:

For me I thought that all computers displayed there password in the password bar because our password was password.

Mine is when I was 9 I thought going to cmd prompt meant I was hacking by typing netstat... lol

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Just now, RookieAtPcBuilding said:

Mine is when I was 9 I thought going to cmd prompt meant I was hacking by typing netstat... lol

I thought  I was hacking*

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My mom's PC was slow, so I (pretending to be tech savvy cuz my mom told me my generation is better with PCs) entered the control pannel and started uninstalling everything that I didn't recognize. Office 2007? You stay. Chrome? Stay. NVidia driver? what in the heck is an NVidia??? Smarty pants me thought I found the "virus", uninstalled the driver and BOOM!!! 800x600 resolution immediately.

 

I freaked out, but my mom couldn't know I was freaking out, I was supposed to be tech savvy remember? So I did the only thing 13 y/o me could think of: I Googled it.

 

10 years later I work as IT staff for an import company. So yeah, there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents, as Bob Ross would say.

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45 minutes ago, SocksAndSandals-Kirst said:

My mom's PC was slow, so I (pretending to be tech savvy cuz my mom told me my generation is better with PCs) entered the control pannel and started uninstalling everything that I didn't recognize. Office 2007? You stay. Chrome? Stay. NVidia driver? what in the heck is an NVidia??? Smarty pants me thought I found the "virus", uninstalled the driver and BOOM!!! 800x600 resolution immediately.

 

I freaked out, but my mom couldn't know I was freaking out, I was supposed to be tech savvy remember? So I did the only thing 13 y/o me could think of: I Googled it.

 

10 years later I work as IT staff for an import company. So yeah, there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents, as Bob Ross would say.

That's a classic. I think pretty much everyone has deinstalled something he shouldn't have deinstalled once or maybe even twice.

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Probably a common mistake for first time PC gamers, but I thought the cpu was the primary consideration for gaming and didn't realize the GPU existed. To say my first laptop with Core 2 Duo and GMA 4500 provided disappointing gaming performance was a mild understatement 

My eyes see the past…

My camera lens sees the present…

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2 minutes ago, Caroline said:

windows was a good operating system

Try Microsoft Bob some time.

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"this thing that displays images is a computer. That black box is a monitor"

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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8 hours ago, will4623 said:

"this thing that displays images is a computer. That black box is a monitor"

No! That black box is the CPU! ?

My eyes see the past…

My camera lens sees the present…

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I once asked my brother how long is a volt meter.

 

I think there was also a time when I stuck a key into an AC outlet :o yes, there were sparks, and yes obviously I'm still here.

 

Also I fried an original ATI All-In-Wonder video card somehow by hooking up some analog sources (VHS I think) wrong, for video capture.  (Speaking of which, I can't seem to find any modern combo cards like that - GPU like RTX or RX combined with capture from analog (and now digital) external devices - on the same card.  The AIW also I think had a TV tuner.)

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When I was young I thought when you burn something on a disc you change the ink on the disc itself.

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When I was 4 I thought that the monitor was the computer and either didn't see the tower it thought it was for internet ?

 

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