Age when you got your first PC

[TheFalseHuman]

Compared to most of you guys, I got into tech pretty late.

 

I started getting into consumer electronics in 8th grade (like 12 or 13 years old) and really got into it in high school. I'm currently in 11th grade

 

I still haven't my custom pc yet lol but it doesn't seem so hard after watching so many Linus's and other tech videos, but the thing is that I don't game so I don't really have a need for a new pc lol

[knight_40k]

I started playing PC games around 14 (Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Age of Empires) but I didn't really get into computers until after high school and able to buy my own which was a custom built PC (Athalon XP 1800, GeForce 2, 40GB HDD). From there I started buying/adding more HDD's, RAM, CD Burner, etc and learning how to install hardware, load drivers and it quickly became an addictive hobby.

[TooManyErrors]

Technically, I got into computers when I was 4 or 5 years old. It wasn't until I was 12 or 13 when I decided I was going to start building computers.

[Norwegiantweaker]

when i was born

[mark201200]

5-6, with a win '98 laptop. But i really started building pcs at 10-11

[Xecuter34]

Mine was definitely from a young age, around about the age of 4-5 the first two games I played then were Age of Empires 2 and Lemmings. Great games and I still play them today. Building them was when I got around 8-9 since I used them so often.

[LemonSpice]

7 on an old single core athlon gaming ithought it was amazing and when my mom and dad bought me a mac i thought the intel integrated grahics were great

[LemonSpice]

Linus was who really go me into hardware i was already into software at the time

[theelitegamer]

I was around 6ish and played Comanche 4. Then I figured out how to get more games till, I couldn't run one. I looked up how to make your computer run faster and came across linustechtips his older videos..... wow...

[kenny'sGhost]

i was around 7

 

my mom could do "cool" stuff on a computer and I wanted to be able to do the same + more.. and it just went on and on from there

[Toggle]

During my freshman year of high school. My grandfather, who is really into computers himself, invited me to help build one for my parents everyday use. I really enjoyed it and it led to me wanting to build my own and led to my interest in both computers and what makes them work.

[toms94z71]

 

 

 

1993. Playing Gorillas in QBasic.

 

Played it with my brother forever. I was 6 at the time.

 

Me too but I was around 10 at the time.

[seabass9990]

Technically 1, cause thats the age i played my first computer game at. realistically around 8

[TechnoGarrett]

When I was 3-4 and playing 3D Pinball non stop.

 

When I was 5-6 I played HL1, TF, BattleZone, and a few others on my Dell something that I still have and still am able to use.

 

I can take a pic of my Half Life complete pack if any of you guys want.

[kayodoc]

Maybe when I was 2 or 3. My dads a computer systems analyst for the gov so we've always had new computer gear and stuff around the house. He'd put me on his lap and code/work on computer stuff so I've pretty much been with computers my entire life. My parents were pretty surprised when I said I wanted to go into medicine and just keep computers a hobby. "Passionate coding is better coding" I'd say.

[Rommer2258]

it was about 96-97 when i first actually got interested i took apart my family's windows 95 HP, and put it back together, they where pissed because me being 5 and taking apart computers didn't make them to happy, it was about 10 years after that when built my first 15 

[You5eff]

Got into computers when I was 10 built my first one at 12.

[NoctHorn]

I have been playing computer games more or less all my life but I got more serious when I started playing Minecraft (~early 2011).  I became interested in building a computer back in December last year, teaching myself for a few months.  I built my computer in mid June.

[Sousuke]

4 as I remember me helping (Or at least trying to help in a 4 year olds way) to upgrade a Windows 3.1 machine to Windows 95.

[The Tech Prince]

When I was about 4 or 5 I was given the educational game Reader Rabbit, but I'm now trying to save up to build my first PC.

[Tiederian]

2003, when I was around 11. Bought my first (and only) prebuilt when I was about 15, then upgraded that with an ATI 3650 when they came out. I then built my first PC at 17, and have never looked back.

[Nicolas]

I was 10 and wanted a Pc and my uncle showed me the ways of the Master Race

[MeltingPoint]

I started gaming at around 1st grade. I think the first game I played and got addicted to was Red Alert 2.

I only got interested in tech and computers at around age 12.

[Juganog]

we didnt own a pc untill i was 10 and we had dialup till i was 14 ive been gaming since i was about 5 when the first pokemon came out on gameboy though

[zadda1]

Well about a year ago! And just built my first PC!