How did you become interested in tech?

[dcgreen2k]

It was August of last year when I asked my uncle how I could get more frames per second in Minecraft. He wanted to take a look at my PC, and he told me that I needed a better graphics card, so after he left, I looked up "graphics card" and the first thing that popped up was the Radeon fury nano. It's a pretty awesome card in my opinion, but the price was 300 dollars!? So I kept searching, and a month later, I ended up at my final choice, a used EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC. I was quite worried that it wouldn't work with my old Dell oem motherboard, but it did! Surprisingly, this budget card that I bought used for $50 was infinitely more powerful than my old card, the GeForce 7300 LE. Yes, from the 7000 series.

 

tl;dr I had a super old graphics card, got a 750 Ti, and everything took off from there.

 

I would love to hear your stories!

[Changis]

3 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

It was August of last year when I asked my uncle how I could get more frames per second in Minecraft. He wanted to take a look at my PC, and he told me that I needed a better graphics card, so after he left, I looked up "graphics card" and the first thing that popped up was the Radeon fury nano. It's a pretty awesome card in my opinion, but the price was 300 dollars!? So I kept searching, and a month later, I ended up at my final choice, a used EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC. I was quite worried that it wouldn't work with my old Dell oem motherboard, but it did! Surprisingly, this budget card that I bought used for $50 was infinitely more powerful than my old card, the GeForce 7300 LE. Yes, from the 7000 series.

 

tl;dr I had a super old graphics card, got a 750 Ti, and everything took off from there.

 

I would love to hear your stories!

my brother was friend with the son of a guy who imported the Commodore 64 to Norway, my brother got one WAY before launch ( i think a year before) because of that, so i've grown up with tech around me.

tl;dr god i'm old.. 

[Shreyas1]

I saw a polygon in the terrain on an xbox

[BingoFishy]

computer cant minecraft

[MrMarriarty]

6 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

I had a super old graphics card, got a 750 Ti

OMG my first graphics card was a 3dFx Voodoo card... wow i fell old!

[NumLock21]

Some are born with it, while others will discover it later on in life, just like you with that used 750Ti graphic card for $50 bucks. A person need to have a interest in it, otherwise they're not going to enjoy it that much. This isn't applied only to technology, it's applied to everything.

[Lurick]

Video games and a want to become a game programmer.

The programmer in me died out but I became a network engineer instead so I've stayed in touch with a lot of tech  

[Klovnious]

Got bullied alot in my entire childhood. My father who works in the Norwegian oil industry, was lucky enough to get a PC in our home in the mid 90's, and I feel in love with computers and such, since it became my escape from the shitty reality.

[Go_Flux_yourself]

I started out on a packer bell Legend 25Mhz intel SX chip

32mb of ram

a 320mb hdd 

cd drive 

dos 6.22

i started on this machine when i was 7 years old !

My first tech experience was with that machine when i had to put in an Intel DX chip in it to get it to run windows 95 cause it needed a math co processor which that SX chip did not have !SO I UPGRADED THAT BISH 

loved that pc used it for like 3 years after that till i got my AMD K6 400MHZ computer!

[manikyath]

i became interested in tech because of laziness.

[AresKrieger]

I have always liked gaming and have been computer literate since I was 3 back in the days of dial up modem ring noises, additionally I've focused my schooling on tech thus it is always around me and I gravitated towards it as a result.

[Shreyas1]

12 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

computer cant minecraft

I just sucked it up and played at 1 fps 

[ApolloX75]

I wanted a computer when I was a kid so my dad placed a box of 486 parts in front of me and said "build one."

 

Took me a while but I did it. Things were a lot less plug and play and user friendly back then. I used that 486 DX2 33MHz system for several years until about '95 or '96 when I switched to a monster Pentium 120MHz, then a K6-2 400MHz with a Voodoo 3 in '98, and the rest is history.

[Mira Yurizaki]

First it started with video games. Then it went to my parents getting us a computer and playing games on that. Then it went to knowing a friend or two who was into computers and stuff.

 

It sort of snowballed from there.

[Jurrunio]

Because I want to play games better? My mother bought me the basis of my current system: i5-4460, H81 mobo, 1TB HDD, 400w GTR psu (a brand which makes PSU that blows up within 2 years), 4GB RAM, a thin case that can only fit half height graphics cards, in 2014. I used it just fine at first, until I started playing Minecraft and it ran like crap. That's when I got interested in PC hardware and upgraded it to its current form.

[Drak3]

8 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

First it started with video games. Then it went to my parents getting us a computer and playing games on that. Then it went to knowing a friend or two who was into computers and stuff.

 

It sort of snowballed from there.

Similar story, but I became the friend that knew more about computers, for a decent while.

[Weedingtechniques]

About two years ago, a friend of mine showed me a youtuber, Jerma985. At the time, he played a lot of team fortress 2. (now he has branched out to play other games) So I became interested in the game Jerma was always playing, and my friend who showed me Jerma was into PC's, so I asked him if he could build me a PC. He said he could, so I saved money up over a long period of time (I'm too young to have an actual job, so it took me longer.), and got enough for a ~$200ish budget build. Specs were something like this: amd athlon x2 370k, gt 240, 4gb of ddr3 ram, 300 watt psu, and a 500gb 5400 rpm hard drive. Let me tell you, that thing did not run Team Fortress 2 smoothly at all. I should have researched myself and not let my friend do it for me, but I got what I got. So, I upgraded my pc a few times. Upgraded the cpu to an amd a10 7890k (which apparently wasn't compatible with my mobo so I got constant BSOD's), and a gtx 750 ti. After a long while, I decided to get a new pc. At this time, I had watched a good amount of tech videos on youtube, and I was somewhat knowledgeable in computers. (at least enough to be able to decide the parts I want and build one.) I saved up for another long period of time, and had a different friend of mine help me as well. The specs of my new computer are this: i5-7600k, gtx 1060 6gb, 8gb ddr4, 1tb hard drive, 500 watt psu. This computer, though it had higher fps in tf2, got stuttering, and I couldn't find out why. I spent the longest time trying to figure out why. (I should mention I got stuttering in a few other games as well.) But recently, I upgraded my ram to 12gb (not 16gb due to lack of money), and a 160gb ssd for testing. So far, it seems the stuttering has gone from very impactful on gameplay to very minimal. That's my story.

[DrMacintosh]

1999 PowerMac G4

[Mira Yurizaki]

Oh, I should add to my story a bit.

 

Since I wanted to play games and all on the computer we had, I started to learn how to use it. I'd break things and figure out if there was a way to fix it, and this was usually without the help of the internet (because good ol' dial-up at the time). So I learned basic DOS commands and such. And I learned to fix or not screw up the computer because it was shared and being from what could amount to a stereotypical Asian family, I didn't want to ask my parents for help. I did get my own computer at some point, and that's when I really started to tinker with things. Mostly getting an old hard drive with my stuff off an old computer.

 

So that sort of sped things up in the learning process. By the time I got my first custom built computer (that my dad built), I had pretty much built up a knowledge of how to work on most of a computer.

[Mihle]

It just happened.

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Been using computers since I was like 5... I remember clearly using Windows 98 and ME when I was still in kindergarten on shit boxes like this.

Spoiler

 

 

[Drak3]

2 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

shit boxes like this.

I still have one of those. One of my favorite cases.

[Alariel]

I got moved around a lot as a kid, kinda grew up feeling like a pinball, so the web naturally became the place where I could form semi-permanent connections. Everything else kinda just evolved from that somehow.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

I still have one of those. One of my favorite cases.

Wish I kept it, would've made for a nice sleeper PC. Scrapped it more than a decade ago. That was my ME system. The 98 system looked similar to this one.

[dmaes]

Didn't have my own pc until a year ago, just 1 slow laptop to share with my younger brothers.

But I got a smartphone, so I tried to do as much as possible on my smartphone.  I became a real android power-user, but in the end interest took over necessity and a smartphone wasn't enough anymore. I started reading a lot of articles on IT, for when the day came if finaly got a pc (a sat 3hours a day on the bus going to school, so lot of time to read a lot of articles). Also all my friends at school were gamers and had a father or brother who worked in IT, so the only thing we talked about was tech and porn.

A year ago, my parents bought me a laptop to go to university (IT already was my only interest, aside from music and food, so I started comp-sci), and I built me a desktop with the money I earned in summer. Got involved with some Linux nerds at uni, and now I'm a Linux fanboy/nerd too.