Can you still remember when did you learn or use computer?

@agihcam (1914)
Philippines
July 24, 2008 7:25pm CST
Now a days, computer learning or subject is already included on school subjects starting in Elementary. This is a great improvement right now from Department of Education because the kid's can learn computer at early stage. But can you still remember when you started using computer or when did you learn using it? I think I was first use the computer when I was in college since we have computer subject that time. I remember we are using Lotus123 that time. How about you can you recall it when?
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
25 Jul 08
i know about the computers as it was already in our curriculum in the technical school i graduated. and i had a glance of it on the first year. but i learned more and use computer almost regularly when i was already working as a technical man. KEEP SMILING = NEIL
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@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
Yeah, when you have work especially in the office, that is the time that you can learn a lot of computer stuffs.
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
25 Jul 08
I think the first time I ever used a computer was in high school, I took a computer programming class, which I didn't really like or understand, and that was back in the 80's. I think I was a senior, and they had just gotten computers a couple years before that. I don't remember what program we were using, can't remember that far back..lol.
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@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
26 Jul 08
Are you the one opening the PC that time or the PC is already running and you just do some stuff. Just asking because as I was remembered when I first use the computer, I don't know the process from starting up to shut down, I only learn data encoding that time.
@debjit (339)
• India
25 Jul 08
Hi friends it was almost 10 years when I got my first computer as my birthday gift. My dad brought it and made it all a surprise. I was truely amazed that day. It was a basic computer no doubt with Windows 95 operating system in it. But it was my first computer and was too young to deal with sophisticated softwares then. So, it perfectly suited my need. Since then a strong passion on it grew on.
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@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
It is a nice gift though. Thanks for sharing it.
@jaded22 (828)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
I started when I was in Grade 5 or 6. At the time of the evolution of the Internet, I could recall that I started being hooked to it when I was in First Year Highschool. ;) And then the rest is history. Lol. I was hooked to it since then.
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@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
Cool, my kid's already starting now, they are in Grade 3 and already starting doing some Paint stuff.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
25 Jul 08
agihcam I learned to use a computer when I was in my late sixties and have kept on learning for this pasttwenty years. i love my computer and remember when I used to save I wouldn know how to use one of those things. now i am having a ball at 81 and will keep on having a ball on my computer as long as I live. its so much fun and so educational and just everything. I would not miss it for the world. I am on all day and love it so much.
@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
Wow, you are great. You are right, computer is really helps us a lot and we can love it much. Thanks.
@ayessa (1583)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
I also started to have a coputer subject when I was in college but the sad thing was the university that I'm does not have enough computers for students. You know the state universities here in our country so mostly the computer subject was just full of drawings and imagination of how a computer will work. Though I really don't remember how did I able to learn this thing cause as far as I know I graduated without touching a real keyboard and they work that I get was encoding. Anyway, what's good is now I more in computers.
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@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
Right, it is better late than never. Like me, though I started learning late, I continuously finding and searching, learning other computer functions especially programming languages.
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
I first learned to use the computer when I was in high school. My sisters used to bring loads of their work from their office back at home. My sisters used to pay me to help them out compile details on the computer. So I slowly learned then on college I studied associate in computer science too even though I didn't finsh it I learned a fair good deal about it. As I grew older I started getting jobs in call centers and then I learned more from there. Yeah I remember lotus 123 to and there was also the DOS ...those are old computer terms that are not being used anymore. Computers are more modernized now and much more complicated to learn.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
25 Jul 08
Yes. I first learned to partially use the computer when I was in high school. I still did not learn how to turn it off and on and what actually made it work though. I had a computer several years ago but we did not have the internet. I first got the internet in 1999. I bought me a Dell computer. I now use and Emachine because something went wqrong with my Dell. I have always used Windows XP also.
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25 Jul 08
I first started using a computer when I was about eight years old. It had games on it which you loaded on by cassette tape. I also learned how to write some game programs in BASIC - they were just text based programs where you had different options to choose as writing graphics was much more complicated and used to take too long (I don't think I had the patience) but it was quite fun! I had a book with example programs it in which I followed and then learned to adapt.
@mayka123 (16605)
• India
25 Jul 08
I think it was somewhere in 1993 in the Office I was working in. But then for 12 years after that I was at home and then completely forgot how to use it. Then again brushed up a bit 5 years ago.
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@paid2write (5201)
25 Jul 08
I bought my first computer about eight years ago. I had never used one before, but I was a traied typist and I had used a word processor, so using the keyboard was not problem. I hadn't used a mouse before but I soon became used to it. I taught myself everything I know, from the internet and trying things out for myself. There are still things I don't know how to do but those are things I don't need to know, and if I do need to learn I can find out how with a bit of searching and reading online.
@dhangski (3194)
• Philippines
25 Jul 08
Just like you, I learned computer when I was in college. The only one that was taught to us was Lotus123 and Wordstar. Have a nice day my dear friend. HUGZ!
• China
25 Jul 08
me too,i remember we learned Lotus123 and Basical for computer course.
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@zhaosonghan (1039)
• China
25 Jul 08
I first used computer at fourteen old years,i use it to play games,when i was seventeen i have the first computer of mine.I remembered that i was so surprised when i saw the computer,i think it's too magic,since that time i have love it.
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• Philippines
25 Jul 08
I learned using computer in elementary days. I learned it at home. At that time we still do not have computer subjects. I thinked I learned it through watching my father as he uses it because it's easier for me to learn even if I just stare on it.
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@NettyB (335)
• United States
25 Jul 08
We bought our first computer in 1999, my daughter showed me everything..lol. She was in high school at the time. Now my grand daughter shows me stuff..lol She says they have computer time at school every day.I am glad, they need to keep up with technology.
@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
25 Jul 08
When I was in grade school we did have computer use , but all we did is play games . When I took a computer class in high school I was so lost , and the teacher was so mean to me . My family got a computer when I was going ito my senior year in high school , and I taught myself
@bigtom1 (1573)
25 Jul 08
i started using the computer about about 5 years ago and i only got internet at home about 3 years ago. The first 2 years i started using a computer, i would frequent the internet cafe's and my relatives workplaces for internet access.
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• Malaysia
25 Jul 08
I start using computer in 1994. In that time is i'm studying to use a software called Autocad. The first day i use computer it's very funny because the lecturer says "Dont't push any button that he don't ask because the computer will explode." Then my friend says, the lecturer just joke because he also don't know much about computer. While using the computer i feel very interesting because much thing can do faster.
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• Brazil
25 Jul 08
i use computer since 1996 it was one 486 and use internet since 1997. now i have 18 years. so i've start when i was 6-7 that time i just used to play. 2001 with 11 years i've start really to use computer and learn somethings interesting. i'm not some king of geek but i really love to learn some new freatures on PC. actually i'm thinking about some kind of school for computer because i know much inside him but i do not know about outside, the hardware.
@chandu245 (647)
• India
25 Jul 08
Ya i never forget those situations that i learnt on those days by my best teacher. He is one of the best teacher, he was having good knowledge with well personality of english spoken. He is ever best teacher to teach computer subject. I used computer on my high school days on 9th standard.