What Got You Into Computers?

[HaraldR]

I started on them way back in 1970,it was part of my job,funny I am still not sick of them,they just keep getting better

[Beskamir]

Lets see. Trying to play games (mainly RPGs and RTSs) on my old desktop. Also as my knowledge of computers increased I started to get into torrenting which further developed my understanding of computers.

[iruixos]

My grandmother. As odd as it sounds, it's true.

 

She had a clerical/administrative job for a trucking company years ago, and she would have all of the 'newest' hardware (subjective by today's standards lol). I have fond memories of a laptop she gave me, it was a Hitachi which you could remove the floppy drive, the disc drive, battery, install other expansion cards, etc. It ran Windows 95 and I loved it. It was this muddy grey colour, and EXTREMELY heavy but it was a thing of beauty at the time. No idea where it is now.

[Sketched360]

One word.. Gaming

[Burusutazu]

My grandmother lugged in a old Asus desktop with a Pentium 3 processor. It ran windows 95. It's been awhile so some of those details could be off.

[Nomy]

Video games and the internet. Those 2 sucked me into the void called PC.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Porn, at the very first. 

 

 

Lol just kidding. It's because I had a console first and found out a computer was way more powerful and then I started looking at PC hardware.

[Tcbp]

I picked up a MaximumPC magazine a few years back and haven't looked back

[Tro]

Watching LinusTechTips video's.

No really, He inspired me to build my own and learn more about computers.

[cragger89]

Porn.

[Whatsupnowbro]

I got to go and take a tour of Microsoft's headquarters when my uncle worked there, and then I found Linus on NCIX and I fell in love with computers

[dekkern62]

I just saw linus and thats when it started (my parents hate it though)

 

[shampoosachet]

NFS Underground 2.

Then I tried to build my own gaming machine, which is failed because I'm using a Sempron.

 

I was on tight budget.

 

Since then, I always research a lot before buying something.

[hamzahimself]

I was going to buy an iMac when I discovered a local pc building store that's when I really got into pcs

[ccaian]

Someone I met at cod, who told me my laptop was shit and asked me to build a PC. Met up with him on msn and he guided me to glory.

[CheeseB0y]

Minecraft is what started my interest in pc gaming, but at that point I didn't know anything about how it worked. Over time I was interested in why my computer was faster than my friends and I started to research that a little. I've always had a thing for computers, my family would always come to me for help by the time I was like 13 or so. I remember opening up some old desktops that we don't use anymore and just taking them apart and putting them back together just to figure out how it works. After a while I wanted to build my own pc so I did, and I taught myself a little programming too, and that brings us to today. Obviously I've expanded my pc game library too.

[Caeradwyn]

Inherited an old "portable" Columbia VP 8088-based PC back in the late 80's. Found out that gaming (Paratrooper, Space Commanders, Zaxxon etc.) was a lot of fun. Later swapped to a pimped out Amiga 500 (HDD, monitor, extra floppy and so on), and bought my first "proper" PC, a 486 SX/33 back in the early 90's. Next one was a parts built Pentium, and I've been going since. I like tech and gadgets in general.

[NitrosNachos]

It started from getting terrible 20~30 FPS in games like Skyrim, GTA IV from my laptop I had for years and I wanted to get a ailenware PC just to play games without lagging. Googled for a while and I got a few results thats about custom PC and that's how I got into computers   

[kaylexmorgana]

E peen

[Goussy]

Not being able to play on ultra settings.

[TechFnatic]

Saved up 800 bucks for my first PC, didn't know what I was getting in to.... and now here I am, I can't get off

[xentric]

I would say gaming got me into computers.

 

I saved up all my money to buy a gaming PC so I could play World of Warcraft back in 2005-2006. Back in those days you needed a powerful PC to handle 40 man raids.

[Misanthrope]

Piracy. Plain and simple, I was a broke teenager and just couldn't afford to buy games or music at all and my family struggled a lot those times just keeping food on the table. I basically downloaded a metric ton of games and mp3 files and got everything I could, now I've grown to be an adult that spends heavily on PC gaming and can actually go to concerts and buy tshirts and such. 

[Wojethebest]

I don't know I was always into computer. But when I discouvered linus it turned from an intrest into a hobby

[NoctHorn]

The first PC game I really embraced was Minecraft.  I was playing on a Phenom x3 and Radeon HD 3200 so performance wasn't the best.  This became all the more obvious when I got into more system intensive games.  At that point, I started considering building a PC (Which I knew nothing about at that point) and the rest is history...