The first time you used a computer!

[The Observer]

I was about 11 or 12, anyway its was back in '98 in my friends house he had a HP that was very slow and took ages to download images cause it was dial up connection. It wasn't until I was about 20 that I bought my own. Now I have one with 50mb fiber optic connection, something you could only dream of back then ::

 

[theslowesthand]

Aquarius ---> Amiga500 ---> PC's (Win95, Win98/Se/Me, XP, Win7)

 

[Generical]

Probably somewhere around class 3 in primary school using an acorn a3010 used to play lander, although seemingly impossible to land the damn thing. Would have been..1995 ish

Lander Acorn Games Video Archive A3010/TV Card - YouTube

 

[Thelema]

I got my first computer when I was 8 or something. I was a Compaq (do they still make those?) Had no internet and one of those mouses before optical came out...with a stupid little ball that was annoying.

One time I went over to a friends house and we loaded porn onto a floppy disk so I could see it on my own computer. haha

 

[jtb1980]

The first time I used a computer was my dad's old Apple IIGS back in the 80s. Of course we didn't have the internet then and didn't for a long time. I didn't first go on the internet until I took a computer class my sophomore year in high school. I remember not knowing what a search engine was and having the guy next to me tell me the best search engine was webcrawler LOL!

 

[LA-girl]

I think computers and the internet has been the greatest curse in my life... The first one was a Commodore 64 in the late 80's i think.

 

[Vampiro]

At 5-6 years or so. I loved exploring everything. But without the internet, i knew internet at 8 and I had it in my house at 10. And the very use to this day, i'm 20. Even i am studying computing at university. It is my vocation, i guess, haha.

 

[montejocarlo]

1st grade. 6 yrs old

 

[Statsu]

First time I used one was when I was 5 in school. First time I used one I owned was when I was 12

Of course when I say "used" I mean wasted most of my teen years playing too many video games on it

 

[this_portrait]

8 years old. All I really did on it was play games until I got bored of it at 10 (when I discovered video games). I touched it again at age 11 when I first got internet.

 

[akala]

I was 8, it was the same bulky PC lol. but we didn't have internet so I used to play solitaire and mario on it.

 

[mikebird]

At my friends house as a kid, it was one of these:

Playing this:

I thought it was the coolest thing ever! lol

YES SIR! We have summit in common. I was 4 in primary skool.

I'm glad I've been behind the curtains with the monsters that run the show, wearing thick puffcoats in over-air-conditioned rooms. Not any more. Most mainstream don't see proper com-poo-tahs. Piece of plastic in your hand, your desk or on the carpet is NOT a computer. Everyone calls 'em that. Something using a piece of wire.

People at a festival waving their hands are the audience and payers. The performers are the people wiggling their fingers up & down the guitar strings, bangin on the drums and sticking the plastic stick down their throat with a wide mouth. The real sound comes from the people adjusting amps behind the stage.

Paying for food to eat; the waiter brings the food on a plate, with a smile. The chef makes it, using heavyweight, hot apparatus and kit at the back

The web servers provide what you get, and you can't see it unless you're there.

I like physics and reality. Best games were on the Spectrum. Angry Birds is a decent 2-dimensional strategic goal-orientated retry, but I preferred jumping from platform to another and shooting. Today's best real game is 3-dimensional, chasing horseflies at home to spray with chemicals and see the results as the enemy gets lost flying around or spinning around on the floor with my handheld hoover and I watch until the fly gets stuck on a window sticker

 

[Kiwong]

At work in 1982 was my first exposure to computers. It was a system to pay medical bills at an insurance company. Age 21

About 1989, at university. MS Word was a very simple piece of software. There was massive 5 1/2 floppy discs.

I got my first computer in about 1992.

 

[BlackPuma]

My very first computer was the one we got from my grandmother. I don't recall what computer it was, but it had a green/black screen and pre-dated the mouse. I think this was '93-'95 or something. I must have been no older than 6. It also had this loud crappy printer that my brother and I used to play with.

That one broke or was sold (I can't remember), and then we only got another computer when I was in highschool. That was also the first computer with which we had the internet. I remember being endlessly amazed with it.

 

[Flanscho]

I was a kid. I still have at my family flat some magazines for computer games, that have a red warning box next to some games, when they require more than 1mb of RAM.

 

[spider04]

 

[neardeath]

I don't even remember, other than I was an adult. I remember when the phone company got computers for 411 because, (this is true), when I started working there, we used real phone books for 411!!!!!!! OMG

 

[mikebird]

Got a Spectrum under my table.

It was a perfect way to make new friends inside the Spectrum. Each tape is a new friend, when you're 10

Then an Atari ST and thought it was French, with a mouse, and surprised it was American. No machine has ever evolved so hugely ever since. Friends had Amigas. I found an old ST with Monitor and mouse. in a skip in 1998

My girlfriend left me with it as she left, as a present. Her Mum had one left in the closet for her older brothers. I remember it and it shaped my mind completely differently when a child is young, in an era. A screen with black and colours is enough, until all mighty corporates push to build better, faster, selling 'em, makin more money... more, more, more, etc

Simple example you could easily get a seat on a train 20 years ago. Then it's impossible, 10 years on. Does anything get better, or worse? All things revolve around money. Sorry by saying something you knew before.

I could list hundreds of Spectrum games right of my head... so I won't.

 

[Hellhound]

It was around 2006, I think

 

[jc972]

It was in 1999...maybe 2000. I was in a computer class in high school but I hated it. I had to use one like this from 2006-2009

Now I use a new one from 1986 :sarcastic:

Granted, these are machine computers that tell my lathes what to do by me programming them but they are computers no less. mg:
I'm learning about all this weird computer stuff too late.