How old were you when you first used a computer?
By voldrox
@voldrox (7191)
India
13 responses
@snowy22315 (182210)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I was like 35. My boyfriend bought me a computer because he said I really needed to learn how to use one, shortly after that i had a job where I was trained to use a mouse. Computers have been part of my life ever since that time. I was often using them at work and at hoem. I really like laptops though and have been using one for about the last year and a half. With laptops computers have really been part of my life.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
22 Jul 09
When I was 14 I received a computer as a birthday present, and that was the first computer I ever used. I didn't know anything about computers at that time, but my father helped me install the different things. It was a very simple computer. I was able to write a little bit, but most of all I used the computer for playing games. My brother and I had many games and we used to play together. At that time my school had a few computers, but they were very oldfashioned and we hardly used them at all.
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@VKXY62 (1605)
• Australia
22 Jul 09
Hi, I was also a school kid at the time, about 14. It was 1976. The computer was residing at the Footscray Institute of Technology, and DOS didn't exist yet.
It ran basic. It had the little b&w screen, a keyboard, and 2 big racks full of shelves of bits.
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@OConnell87 (1042)
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22 Jul 09
i think i was 10 when we got one at home, and it was big and so basic. At primary school we had one in the entire school and it was always locked up in a big metal cupboard, but now primary schools have a whole room just for computers
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
22 Jul 09
I'm now 52 but the first time I used a computer was when I was 20 years old. It was back in 1977. I was so afraid of the computer in the beginning. Worried I would make a mistake. So funny now when I look back on that thinking. I love the computer and what we can accomplish in our everyday life having it available to us. I can't imagine living with out a computer. I know people who don't have a computer and I find that really strange.
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@kevchua (1004)
• Malaysia
25 Jul 09
Hi, well..I thought I was old :)
Anyway, I first got acquainted to a computer in mid-1980s when I was about 18 years old. My dad bought me a C-64 (to newbies, C-64 is not an explosive) in 1985, which was one of the better known computers at that time besides Apple, Atari, Amstrad and Radio Shack. When I got my computer, westerners had already been using PCs for years - mostly IBM PCs that ran on the Intel 8088 chipsets, while Asians were still very new to PCs. I also learnt BASIC, which was a popular programming language at that time.
I still have the Commodore 64 with me right now, though it's not working anymore :(
It's nostalgic. Well, some people just don't like computers no matter how hard you try convincing them it's useful.
Take care and happy computing :)
@VisuUnome (208)
• India
22 Jul 09
i am using computer from the age of thirteen in fact my touch was at school at the age of eight they taught me to how to operate a computer.still now i remember that i'm fluency at my computer because of that only....
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@sweetashoney (3597)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I believe I was around 35, I was going to college and had to type a report. This was during the time period that hardly anyone had a computer in their home. they just cost to much. The teacher took me to the computer lab and showed me how to turn it on and how to get started. I thought it was the coolest thing to be able to use a keyboard instead of a typewriter.
@prinzcy (32305)
• Malaysia
22 Jul 09
I was 13. A company came to school to promote computer usage. They were showing MS Paint or something. It just awed me that I enrolled straight away. But for all my class I only learnt how to use MS Word. Not this new version but the one that required DOS to start. I can't remember it's real name. Then when I was 16 we had computer class, that experienced come handy since I already knew a bit.
@desteny114 (886)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I am prety sure I was also 8 or 9 and the first time that I used a computer was in computer class in school. The teacher would put some learning games to learn how to type and some math games and there were also times that she would talk about how some basic writing program worked.
A that time we lived for a few months with one of my uncles and they had a computer in their house and I would use it but it was just to play games.
@korki4 (263)
• Philippines
26 Jul 09
I was 9 or 10 i think, because my sister was a Comp. Eng'g student she wanted me to try a game for her where you ask a question and the animated person would anwser ;} lol i got addicted to it and played all night even though the my questions were all the same like "What is your name?" because it could only answer a few questions ;}
@aravindkrd (610)
• India
26 Jul 09
Yeah.. I was also introduced to the great MACHINE - Computer when I was in my 2nd grade ( eight years old) which had DOS and later on windows 95! Seeing this question, I just wonder how far we reached from that point were we had to think of commands to do each thing! Now anything and everything are done by computers round the world. I wonder wat the next generation is gonna experience. Its really gonna be crazy - this fast devoloping semiconductor industry!
@davidprosser (5)
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23 Jul 09
Yeah I think I watched my bro being on our first PC when I was about 5 in '97. Good old Windows 3.1 FTW!!! Actually i was into technology from like, 2 - my dad has some video footage of me pointing at the red light on the camera and going "It's on daddy, it's on!" Dave
