Your personal history with the Internet and computers in general

[vap0re0n]

I've been around computers as long as I can remember.

First PC received somewhere at the age of 7 from my brother. I remember it's HDD capacity as 8GB. Processing power...well it could run a GBC games so good enough.
I remember helping the IT teacher in my elementary school and teaching him the simple magic of ALT + CTRL + DEL.

As for the internet. Early dial-up adapter, had to wait until 9pm to go on. Mostly just used it for Neopets, MSN or fansites. Very ate to the broadband scene as my area did not get it until much later.

 

[TheoAllen]

The earliest memory about computer I remember was when I was still 4 y/o. Or at least I thought. I experienced DOS, Windows 3.1, and the beginning of Windows 95. My first video game I ever played was about Dinosaurs eating each other or a herbivore dinosaur trying to eat plants while avoiding predators. Those dinosaurs were moving on grid. I forgot the exact game name, maybe someone remembered?

My second game, and the first game I was addicted to it was Tyrian. A top down shooter. And maybe was the game that dragged me into video game world. The third memorable game was Doom 1 & 2. But I played the game by using cheats.

I lived in rural area where computer was like an alien object. And there was no console player as well. The only chance I could get to play console, was to go to the place where I could rent it to play hourly. Even with that, such place was really rare. My parents didn't give me enough allowance to rent PS or buy me one for economic reason. Instead, I got computer in my home. So I spent my time playing with computer, and get to know most of legacy computer games like Star control, Master of Orion, Populous, etc.

My first internet was during my junior high school when me and my big sister played using Yahoo Messenger. My actual first internet experience though, started with making friendster and got to know about mIRC. It was popular during my junior high school that it piqued my interest to learn more because I was used to think that internet sounded confusing.

Also, anyone remember when if you want a mouse input, you had to manually activate it through mouse.exe? Because during that time, the DOS era, you couldn't plug the mouse and expect it to work. You need to activate it

 

[Finnuval]

The first computer I played around with was a commodore 64, the first console (if you can call it that lol) was pong. Internet was nowhere there yet