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3 years old. 14 now

I've been an avid fan of PCs since I was a wee lad

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When I was 10 I started playing Total War games on my newly build pc

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I would say 10.

But seriously, according to some of the ages listed. This is how I imagine it. 

 

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When I was about 3 or 4 years old I played those educational games from hamy-down computers (about 2002-2003). In 2011 my dad refused to buy me a console but I got a macbook instead, total piece of crud. Early this year I got my decent desktop PC and I am no longer a scrub like last year.

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Very late around 13-14, I remember having no interest in anything at all when I was 12, suddenly I had interest in computers, I spent my whole summer learning and studying about computers

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age 10 when i got my first computer and after a month it started dying, blue screens etc

i got it apart and couldnt put it back together ,then after 3-4 hours i finaly managed to do it :D

but it had the same problem ,i strated to play around in the bios(didnt even knoiw what it was at the time) and i found out that the base freq of the processor was highered by someone (not me ,probably my younger bro did it who knows) and after a reset it worked  :D

i was so happy that i got into it more and more after time

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Probably 8 or 7? Lol, it's been quite a while and I can't recall that much of it xD 

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16. didn't get my own until i was 17.

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I tinkered with computers (and by that I mean plugging in VGA and power cables) since I was about 9. Building computers since about 14.

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13 is when I really started spending a lot of time learning about tech, but I've been using pcs since I was a small child.

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Like 4 years old I was gaming. At 11 I remember making a text based RPG in BlitzBasic, which was pretty cool. Started coding again more recently.

Tea, Metal, and poorly written code.

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7, but never really devoted much time until 12.

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I guess about 12 or 13...

Gamed from age 8 tho. (kids games from 3)

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I was given a ZX Spectrum at the age of 4. I played with it for along time then got the idea to modify it. Which is what led me to become an electrical engineer.

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I would say 10.

But seriously, according to some of the ages listed. This is how I imagine it. 

 

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Lol he looks 2

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I was around hmmm...... 6-7, paying Need For Speed Underground on the computers at my mom and dads work. Dat computer tho.  We still have them, stuffed in the closet,non-operational, full of dust, and really old Pentiums.  #that fps tho

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I've never not owned a PC (mom gave her old ones so I was using Windows ME straight outta the womb) but didn't truly get into PC's until around Christmas when my dad bought me a laptop. Up until then, I'd been using a ten year old iMac which had served me well but was so slow. The little Lenovo S210 got me into computers.

 

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I bulit my first computer with my dad when I was 5 y.o. I played Colin Mcrae 2005, NFS MW, CS 1.6 and I had a bunch of emulators.

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It happened to me pretty late, which is surprising because my dad was huge into building his own PCs and I spent my entire childhood surrounded by modern (for the time) PCs. I didn't really start getting into computers at a level beyond "look, bigger numbers!" until I bought my first laptop Sophomore year of college, which was a direct result of downloading that free copy of Portal to my old hand-me-down laptop and getting frustrated that it couldn't run some of the later levels.

 

I think part of why I didn't get an earlier start, is because my dad actively tried to get me interested in PCs with a poorly executed attempt at explaining binary to me as an attention-deficit child. From then on, computers and CS were simply something boring that I didn't fully understand, and I never really found myself in a position where that could change until I realized it could impact my ability to play a fun video game.

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4 when I learnt what MS Pinball was.  That started a long and dangerous journey of trying to find a way into computers which has led me down this path of becoming a systems engineer currently.  Don't ask.

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Played with computers at 5, First thing was a PS1 at ~4 years of age

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