What's your first ever computing experience?

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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

We had a DOS machine and I played games on it, in like 1993. Mostly Caesar II. Such a great game, even still. I didn't really know how to use the computer, just how to start my games lol

But I didn't really get in to computing until my dad gave me a hand-me-down IBM Aptiva computer, with a pop-up CD drive under the CRT monitor. That thing was so cool. Windows 95. That was really when I learned how to use a computer. That would've been around 1997 or so.

This is what it looks like: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/23/cb/e323cb195f843b45874997856a8a505c.jpg

I basically learned every single thing about windows 95 that I could. And then we got internet, and I was using Napster and stuff. haha

Then I went on to get a computer engineering degree and ultimately make this website with d3rr.

Cool question btw!

[–]Troll 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hope you moved onto Linux. Far better operating system.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We use linux for saidit :)

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My first unix box, I first touched in 1995 at animation college using a Silicon Graphics Indy : https://cdn.ttgtmedia.com/rms/computerweekly/photogalleries/237371/1481_20_what-happened-to-silicon-graphics.jpg

The next year I was animating commercials in New York on an O2 : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/SGI_O2_Workstation_Desk.jpeg

[–]Vulphere[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At least, I already got the taste of MS-DOS via VM. :)