Tech Life

[ChaseB]

Describe how u got into the Tech Community??

[BurgerBum]

Describe how u got into the Tech Community??

i got tech.

[cesrai]

i got tech.

I got it from burger she spreads things pretty fast, she is also a good PR . JK

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I had a laptop and I wanted to build a PC, I liked programming.

[MblaZe7run]

Dad gave me an ultimatum my Sophomore year in high school as I was choosing a field of study for my tech center; drop out and work for me (I was considering electrical or construction trades), or go into computer networking technologies (a general college-level  technology class that I was considering). I, obviously, chose CNT, and acquired about 5 certifications, built two computers, and developed a love for tech.

 

I'm now in college (about 4-5 years later) for Cisco networking and Microsoft server administration, with my 3rd build, working on my 4th, and about a dozen certifications.

 

And I regret nothing.

[lukky211111]

i wanted a computer and i wanted to build it myself so i started looking into how to do so found a guy named carey holzman(who i highly recomend people checkout.), linus, tek syndicate, jayztwocents, barnacules nerdgasm.

[lukky211111]

Dad gave me an ultimatum my Sophomore year in high school as I was choosing a field of study for my tech center; drop out and work for me (I was considering electrical or construction trades), or go into computer networking technologies (a general college-level  technology class that I was considering). I, obviously, chose CNT, and acquired about 5 certifications, built two computers, and developed a love for tech.

 

I'm now in college (about 4-5 years later) for Cisco networking and Microsoft server administration, with my 3rd build, working on my 4th, and about a dozen certifications.

 

And I regret nothing.

i wanna go to college but im literally too terrified to do so haha.

[ThyFeared]

I wanted to make my xbox 360 able to go online. I had to learn about bridging and that's how I got into it.

[elecxonica]

I read a book about computers years ago.

[Decon]

I didn't choose the tech life, the tech life chose me

[deusvult]

By force. 

[JT8101997]

when i was like 13 i was trying to host a minecraft server on an old crappy dell inspiron laptop with a dual core something and like 1gb ram getting around 7-10 fps lol. so i was wondering how computers worked and i decided to look it up, thought it was pretty cool and i ended up building one and just kinda went from there. found other games to play, built better pc's and eventually i got to where i am now at 17. i love anything tech related and i'm into programming and game design and building amazing watercooled heavily modded computers and i love every second of it.

edit: i think i got the laptop for my 10th birthday? either way it was a low end browsing machine from the start. no game ran well on that, but then again i wasn't really into pc gaming when i got it.

[BOT Edward]

My main focus on getting into tech was general interest of how it worked and finding exploits so I could play cs 1.6 in highschool :lol:

[Dogsoldier1965]

Although I'd messed around a little with computers back in the 80's and 90's, I really wasn't interested much beyond playing games. I was however a hard core car guy. Love building them, loved racing them. then in 1997 I had an accident! I was standing about 20 feet up loading stuff onto pallet racking and overloaded the ladder which broke. I came down with a crash seriously injuring my spine and right hip. After this I spent a year in and out of hospital with months of physiotherapy. Was bored out of my mind because cars were way out of the picture. So went along to a local night class and it went from there. 

 

Blew through their classes, ended up going from there into graphic art and have never looked back!

 

 

 

 

[cichington]

By force. 

GeForce?

[Quinten Verhelst]

Very long story it has had periods

My Interests over the time

 

Nothing--->Elekricity--->Android Software--->Phone Hardware(take apart)---->computer software and hardware

[The Gaige]

All I can say it started with Pong!

[carguy86]

at the age of 4 when my father decided it was time to teach me how to build a computer and how they work. (since then i have built 5 pcs, 2 with my dad and three on my own)

[XVariety]

When I was 12 my older brother let me help him put his computer together...Then let me use Linux on it for like a few hours teaching me how to use it.....Ever since that I have always love programming and such and I love to put computers together It's so much fun....

[Ptopman]

I just kinda grew into it, Computers came naturally for me and my parents supported me.

[Recon97]

Linus..... Linus.... Got me here.

[Gaben the Great]

When I was 7, my dad bought me a Dell desktop, it was amazing for all the currently released games (back then). I wanted to see what's inside so I took a brief look, didn't know a single thing  . Later I got a Lenovo K450 when I was 10 and I played Mine craft at the time, getting about 60+ FPS but I heard and saw people getting 1500+ FPS so I wanted that just for show off reasons 

 

So I took out my side panel and saw all the parts, I knew which was which due to lessons, so I googled, "best gpu", came up with a 260x... 

I looked further into it and eventually discovered Linus, Jayz and TekSyndicate. Watched a couple of videos and saw that they recommended the 970, so I researched it and was happy, asked my parents to get it (and a CX600 - bad choice my younger self) for Christmas and there! I was a bit scared because it didn't post at first but eventually I got it to work. My FPS shot up to 500+. Recently I got a 4790k and a Z97. Check sig for full specs.

 

This was one year ago

So yes I'm 12.

[a_block_of_wood]

GeForce?

 

 My parents made me study computer back when 286 was mainstream, saying that people need computer skills in the future.

 

But that shiny Geforce 256 box on the shelf got me hooked, although I could not afford it at that time.

[Suika]

When I was younger, below the age of 10, my Dad loved computers and worked in IT. He built my brother and me a modest gaming PC to keep in our room. The computer had a side window with some blue LEDs so I thought it was the coolest thing in the world, and I thought it was even cooler that my dad built it.

Fast forward to the slightly less younger age of 13, and I was a member of a forum. I noticed some guys playing TF2 and it looked fun, installed it on my laptop and it ran terribadly. I went on the forum to ask what I could do and it was recommended that I build a gaming PC. Me knowing nothing, I hop on Wikipedia and read all about computers. That was when I say I started my hobby.

It wasn't until I was 17 that I could build my gaming PC, but it was one dank machine (not really). It was an FX-8350 and an HD 7870GHz, and while it wasn't the world's best computer, it was mine and I could modify it. And I did modify it. The only two things original to my computer now are the RAM and Hard Drive.

[Tsuki]

my parents gave me an old work computer to use and in no time i had filled it with dozens of viruses (limewire+porn is bad for computers) i didnt want to lose all my data and wipe the harddrive to get rid of shit on there. so i spent about a month teaching myself how to manually remove viruses from my computer. good times

[t895]

I started with playing Minecraft on my parent's Mac. I then became horribly annoyed with the shitty framerates and my brothers hogging it. I then tried to find a computer to buy for myself. All of the computers that I found were ridiculously overpriced after some research, so I asked myself "Could I build a computer?" I immediately looked it up, found the Newegg tutorial, watched the series 8 times and convinced my parents that I could be trusted with delicate and expensive parts. I am now the tech god of my family and my friends go to me if they have a question about tech. It's really awesome!