What got you into PCs?

[threadysparrow]

I just wanted to share this with you guys and ask for your guys' semi-nice comments. I know I have given bad advice on here once or twice especially with that 120 FPS article (even though your eyes will never tell the difference between 120Hz and 240 Hz and if so, it is because of the placebo effect) but I am trying to learn PCs better.

 

This is what got me into PCs. About 5 years ago I bought an HP Pavilion Elite and it was nice. It did everything I wanted it to. But then about 3 weeks after the warranty expired, the 1 TB HDD broke. I didn't know what was wrong with the computer so I called HP tech support and told them what error code I was getting. They said that the SMART system on the HDD reported a problem and that I would need a new HDD. They said that they could send me the HDD with Windows on it for $499.99 because you know, $500 is too much so why not 1 cent less. They said that I would need to take it to an authorized repair store and they would charge me an additional fee to open the PC and put the HDD in there. I said to myself, "There are children who build computers, surely I can learn how to replace a hard drive." So basically I learned how to partition and format an HDD and I used my recovery CDs to put Windows on. I paid $100 for the 1 TB HDD (this was 4 years ago) and the rest is history. I am now getting an IT degree in networking so hopefully, if I keep learning stuff this quickly, I will be able to connect an ethernet cable to a router in about 5-10 years, and in about 20 years, I will learn what this thing called Wifi is that the kids seem to like so much.

 

What got you all into PCs?

[Volbet]

My dad is a networkings engineer and my mom is a industry programmer, so I was pretty much forced to like computers from the beginning

[Cacao]

I jailbroke my ipod 1st gen back in like '07, that was the first thing that actually got me looking into more than just browsing the web. Eventually I got into PC gaming and then needed a better PC so I got into hardware as well. I think it all started from that ipod

[threadysparrow]

My dad is a networkings engineer and my mom is a industry programmer, so I was pretty much forced to like computers from the beginning

My dad has some sort of degree in programming or something like that. I have never been too big on programming. I took an intro Visual Basic class in high school and I had a bad experience with the teacher being a hard ass and expecting me to know these high level math equations so for a while I just gave up on computers. Then a few years ago I finally aquired enough money to actually get into the hardware aspect of computers.

[threadysparrow]

I jailbroke my ipod 1st gen back in like '07, that was the first thing that actually got me looking into more than just browsing the web. Eventually I got into PC gaming and then needed a better PC so I got into hardware as well. I think it all started from that ipod

I never jailbroke my iphone because I depend on it so much for communication and if anything happens to it then I am screwed.

[Kirihuna]

Short answer: I grew up in the 90s.

[ObeseWalrus]

My papa was a big IT nerd, and one of the first 500 that got internet in my country and he was also a avid programmer as he is a musician and he did not think that there was a suitable media player so he made his own. Sadly it was lost from a headcrash on his hard drive. His interest in IT made me a huge nerd and since I am diagnosed with autism I has been hooked on it forever since.

[threadysparrow]

My papa was a big IT nerd, and one of the first 500 that got internet in my country and he was also a avid programmer as he is a musician and he did not think that there was a suitable media player so he made his own. Sadly it was lost from a headcrash on his hard drive. His interest in IT made me a huge nerd and since I am diagnosed with autism I has been hooked on it forever since.

I have Bipolar disorder and ADHD and social skills for me have always been hard. That might actually say something about computers if people with autism and other psychiatric stuff find them easy to utilize. My mom's friend has a son who has severe autism (like he can barely do anything himself and he only makes noises) and he finds it very easy to use a computer.

[delet my acc pls]

Wanted a gaming computer and started reaserching... You know the rest

[CAKEwasTRUE]

i always used to take apart shit when i was like 6, and i always liked wires and lights. now i like cpus and gpu's!

[T.Vengeance]

When my prebuilt computer didn't perform high enough to what I needed to play games with.

[WilliamDB]

I was 6 years old when I took apart my old (then new) Pentium 2 computer, and was caught by my dad. Instead of yelling at me he laughed and proceeded to teach me about what I was looking at.

 

I remember I had the hard drive and the cd drive out, but he caught me before I could do any real damage.

 

16 years later I work in an IT department and love PC gaming.

 

The End.

[_wky]

I have an Uncle in the Electronics Industry. He gave me a computer when I was about 10. In the beginning I just figured out that I liked using them. I have an engineers mind (Read: I like taking things apart and putting them back together.)

So eventually I ended up taking it apart. That was the beginning.

Over time I researched more and more and learned more and more.

So that's me.

[Fetzie]

I wanted to know how it works. So a bit like Wackyalex.

[gill2k]

All the friends I made when I first moved to this country were all into computers.  Also helped that I was a gamer already.  The two just seemed to mesh well together back then when said friends introduced me to the world of PC gaming like Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and Warcraft.

[WoodenMarker]

I needed a faster computer that wasn't my costco pre-built. 

 

My friend who has a Cosmos 1000 showed me his rig and offered to help me build a computer.

Slowly but quickly, my interest in computers and tech snowballed.

[Alex(PlayMedium)]

When I was a little kid(6 or so) I started to build stuff with k'nex, mostly rollercoasters. At some point i started to wonder what other people around the world were building out of k'nex, so I googled it. It has never been very popular in germany unfortunatly, so everything I found were english websites. I had my older sister translate it for me at first, but after a few months I could understand the most important words, so I could go on my first own adventures thru the interwebs.

At some point I found a cool forum where people post pictures and videos of their roller coasters. I wasn't an active user at first, i just looked at the pictures and videos, they inspired me to build a lot more ^^

After some time I created an account there and seeked help for a more complex project of mine, my first forum post EVER was written.

Before I got active on that forum though, I made a youtube account, back in I think 2007, because I wanted to comment on some roller coaster videos really badly. I uploaded my first video in 2008, it was really bad.. like really really bad, looking back at it i am quiet ashamed, but I'll keep it up for nostalgic reasons and stuff. My last roller coaster related video (till today) was posted in 2010, at which point school and gaming became more dominant in my life.

My love for rollercoasters took me to rollercoaster tycoon and from that I became a PC-gamer.

I still have all the k'nex, maybe I'll build again sometime, it sure was great fun.

If you are interested, in my yt channel or the forum, feel free to PM me, I am here at least once per day

[TheSLSAMG]

I always liked taking stuff apart, and I found a few guys on YouTube that talk about computers. I found Marques Brownlee from me wanting to put an SSD in my Mac and I found Linus, Logan (TekSyndicate) and Austin Evans when I wanted to build a gaming computer.

[Nertballs]

I was always into tech, and when one of my friends started playing steam so did I. one thing led to another and i'm typing off the rig that i built! It was one of the best things I have ever done!

[LancerBG]

started as a networking grunt just wire pulling and from that I was just around computers a lot more then got into the hardware. The thing that topped it off and got me hooked on pc's longterm was my first mmorpg experience which was a pc only thing. From that over a decade later I Learned things on my own a long with taking comp tia classes at the local collage. To me pc life is the same as car life..always fun to tinker with it and see how you can make it better.

[Lil Chillbil]

Always was fascinated with computers and photography 

[someone]

What got me you into PC's?

u knew..

pc's... :D :D :D

[JordanMac]

got fed up with consoles so built a gaming pc, then changed case and watercooled it. Then got into modding and built my current build.

[Ruostunut kokis]

I was a console gamer (yes, had just a PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360). After having Xbox 360 for over a year, I begun to move towards PCs for some reason, suggested for my friends to do the same. We all had in mind getting more powerful PCs and selling our consoles. Ironically I brought my friends to PC gaming, but I was the last person to get a decent machine (and also the only one who payed for it with own money. It was a slow process. since I was the poorest person of the group). I suggested my friends to get enough knowledge on PCs, so they could build their new machines. However, only I actually built a PC, the rest of my friends bought just pre-built PCs (still by specs, better than mine).

 

What happened to those friends now: they got into LoL, I wasn't interested of it at all, got kicked out. I'm still a friend of them, but I don't get to play games with them, just because I don't like LoL.

[jbr]

Family members who were in the industry got me access to free stuff through companies that either threw things out or went out of business.

 

In high school most of the students didn't even know how to turn on a computer, so I was part of a small group that started the first computer lab in my school.