How old were you when you learned how to use the computer?

I had my first computer around 13-14 years ago when I was 10 or 11. It was given by someone who had a debt to my father so that was her form of payment hehe. It was black and white and the specifications are still very low. I remember all I did with it was play games by asking someone to copy them on a floppy disc. I had tons of these discs which had different games in them. There were also a few educational ones about the solar system or animals, etc so I also study using that computer. I have a baby brother now who is 4 years old and he learned using the laptop (including the touchpad) when he was 2 years old. At 2, he can already go to youtube and facebook, play different games and listen to his own playlist. Now that he is 4 and can spell, he can already type his favorite website..whew, technology...

hi shhheila...i remember i started to learn how to use computer when i was 14 years old.the computers were old and slow in our school.me and my classmates used to play games whenever the teacher left the room...at that time..i had no idea what internet is all about..when i came to highscholl i learnt about internet stuff.

I never even touched a computer or really knew anything about them until I went to my brothers one night. I was up all night on chat! LOL! I was probably about 32 years old or so. lol

Dont laugh it was a little over 10 years ago I was 33 now you can't get me off my computer i am addicted

i was 12 years old,haha.

This really reminded me of my university days, hahaha! I'm in 2nd year and around 17 when I laid my hands on a computer for the first time. It was one of the subjects that I have to take to finish my course. Fortunately, we don't get to share the computer with another student so I had the chance to really learn MS Dos and eventually Lotus 1,2,3, I guess. Imagine, we still had typewriting subject in my first year and we were blindfolded taking the final exams, hahaha! I talked my father into buying me one and it was still the bulky computer. Black and white and the printer was dot matrix. It was so noisy when you print. I still remember using the big,black square floppy disk to boot the computer. But not so long after that, the 3.5 diskette came to existence. It's really amazing how the computer actually evolved. Now many things are done easier and faster.

I think I first learned how to use the computer when I was around 16 years old. When I was growing up in school computers hadn't really become a big thing and we didn't really use them for a lot of work. So I didn't learn at a very young age. These days though my 6 year old nephew is pretty clued up about how to use a PC and it is quite shocking!

Lucky for you. Well, I belong in the third world country. And would you believe that I just got the chance of seeing and touching a computer when I was in my third year in the University, I guess I was 19 years old at that time. As an engineering student, we actually have a subjet in electrical engineering and our room was in the computer laboratory that is why we usually got the chance of using the computers.

I learned how to use computer when i was about 12,13 years old,and i remember it took a long time for me to understand how the computer work and how i can get information i intereted form the internet at that time,i have few chance to use it, and till i was in high school,i can handling a computer skillfully and began to use it frequently.

i was already working when i learned how to use the computer. we were even sent to training by our employers because in those days, we used our old reliable manual typewriters, then came the electric typewriters which we readily loved, . i was, i guess, already 28 or 29 years old (to compute, that was 24 years ago, lol). we still have the older desktop which we purchased after our first computer ... it is now old too but still functional.

I can't remember how old I was but my daughter is four and knows how to get to her favorite website.

I was 16 years old when I first learned to use computer from a training center. I used to have lots of problems finding the keys in the keyboard. Lots of time I asked our teacher about the location of the keys. Later I studied about how and why they were placed in such a way, and I never forget those days. Internet was not so much widely spread all over the world then, and we had to dial up and wait for a long time for the connections and as well as they were too expensive also. After learning basics and Operating systems, we learned Internet from the training center but in our home we did not have any net connection.

I was taught computers when i was in primary school.But they taught us only theory and it is only when i entered sixth standard they got few computers in our school and we were allowed to use it only for few practical work and that too batch wise.We were not taught about internet,only basics were taught for us.I learnt about internet when i was in college.

well as far as actually using a pc an not just playing games on it, then I will say 17, but in grade school I played games on Apple II's

Hi shhheila, Well, if I'm not mistaken its about 12 years old. That was the first time I use computer. At first its quite hard to use computer. I learn how to type using keyboard. After I know how to use keyboard I learn to play games using computer with my friends. Its quite fun that days as we never play games using computer before this. Until now I think that play games in computer is great. Now the graphics is much better than before and the game is more real.

I was in grade 5 when I first learned the computer.And at that time, the screen was black. When I was in middle school, I knew how to use the internet.

Some of us aren't as young as you, lol. When personal computers that were not for business use came along I was still in high school. That was a long time ago.

I was 13, we used MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal and Foxpro. Wordstar and Lotus 123 was the way to go. 5 1/2 inch floppy drives...Oh, those were the days.

As far as I can remember, I am already using computer at the age of seven and only uses Microsoft Word. Of course I played with the Solitaire and the Mine but I always open the Microsoft Word. I forgot what I did with it before though...but I sure can't forget that I only reached the second page before I give up typing some more one time... As of now, I can reach until 100 pages just typing what goes to my head. Yeah, they are all fantasies, dreams, stupidities and what other people would not expect that I would think of...lol

i feel i'm much later tnan u knowing the computer. when in the senior middle school, i only saw the computer in my uncle's room. he bought it from outside for my cousin. i dared not to think of having one then. and after i entered the university, finally i can use computer when computer class. certainly i also went out to the web bar sometimes. when grade 2, my brother helped me buy one. then, only abt 4 computers in my class. very pride, and also very grateful. i allowed everyone i knew to use it.