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I've been using one since I was 4 years old (about 17 years).

The internet was not introduced yet to businesses and schools then (including simple dial-through connections).

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I first played Reader Rabbit 12 years ago, became truly addicted to the internet 8 years ago, joined IO 4 years ago, and became a total badass in the last year. :D

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My first contact was about 15 years ago, when I was 7 years old. It was in elementary school, to play some old DOS games on 286 and 386 computers.


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About..7 years ago when I was 8 years old, I played fallout.
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I think that was when I was 5, 11 years ago, when I started playing RedCat games on DOS.

The internet I really started to use when I was either 7 or 8, so 9/8 years ago.


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When I was 3 I first played my Dad's Mac. Then we shifted over to Windows 95 then 98, now effing XP. I want a MAC BAD right now.


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My history of ICT:

A long time ago we got a new computer. It was a 386 running some primative Windows OS (I forget which).

This was better, however, then my schools 186 PCs which they had right up until Windows XP first came out when they were finally replaced.

The next computer we got was a Compaq Presario running Windows 98, which then got replaced with Linux Mandrake 6.0, which then got replaced by Linux Red Hat (can't remember which version), which then got replaced by Linux Mandrake 7.2, which then got replaced with Windows 2000.

I then got two new computers, desktop and laptop, both running Windows XP. Then the laptop, is now running SuSE 10.1. I'm going to need a new laptop, however, as there is a bad connection between the moniter and the computer causing the moniter to spontaneously turn off if it is moved about 10 degrees, and it's more cost effecteve to just buy a better computer than to spend money getting it fixed.

And there you have it, my enite computer evolutionary thingy.


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I'm guessing you're about my age, Samsara, so the primitive OS might have been 3.1

Which was the most ghetto Windows ever.

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i have been using the net sence i was 3 years old oh i liked it i was smart :D


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I'm not sure how old I was..maybe uh..10, 11 years ago? My uncle gave me the Tandy, which yes is older than I am, runs on DOS 5 or something and Win3.0, 16 color palette standard but has the ability to turn on VGA! WOW.

I very much like that computer though, haha. It gave me good computer skillz. As in, when in doubt..go to DOS. (or the closest thing you've got)

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Long enough for my parents always to ask for my help when they screw up their laptop.


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This was better, however, then my schools 186 PCs...


There's no such thing as a "186". Intel's processors went from 8086 (or 086) to 286.


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I used one I think maybe 11 years ago to draw a catterpillar. Then a year later, I used AOL 3.0 to connect online. 3 years ago a coupla weeks ago exactly, I joined this place under name Mettaur## 999. I forget exactly what the two numbers in the place of the ## were.


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This was better, however, then my schools 186 PCs...


There's no such thing as a "186". Intel's processors went from 8086 (or 086) to 286.


The school lied, then :P


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Oh, like that's a big surprise. Don't expect truth from a national government, unless its Strongbadia.


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Oh, like that's a big surprise. Don't expect truth from a national government, unless its Strongbadia.


From which kinds of government then CAN you expect truth?


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I think I was about 8years old when I first came in contact with a computer. 2 years later, my parents bought a Pentium166mhz with Win95. We had that for a looooooooong time, until I moved to my aunt's place and bought a P4 with WinXP.


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Most kinds of Democratic Goverment (the ones without a strong central power), and Parliamentary governments tell the truth most of the time. Oligarchies tell the truth when it's in their favor. All other governments generally lie about everything important.


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I'm guessing you're about my age, Samsara, so the primitive OS might have been 3.1

Which was the most ghetto Windows ever.


I think you mean -greatest-. That sucker NEVER EVER CRASHED. And don't try to tell me otherwise, because I know it to be fact. FACT I SAY.

I started out much like anyone, fiddlin' around when I was about three. Playing The Jetsons on the computer ate most of my time. When we got the internet, about...I'd like to say six-seven years later...I was intrigued. We had a meager 56k connection back then, and we didn't upgrade until I was about 13 years old. That was pretty bad. If I remember correctly, that was about the time that we installed the hardwood floors in my living room.

So all in all, a neat 15 years of computer play. Not bad, considering.


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I'd say about 10 and a half years

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I used one I think maybe 11 years ago to draw a catterpillar. Then a year later, I used AOL 3.0 to connect online. 3 years ago a coupla weeks ago exactly, I joined this place under name Mettaur## 999. I forget exactly what the two numbers in the place of the ## were.


I want to say the ## is 34, not sure if that's right, though.

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A quick search shows that 34 is right. You've got a good memory!


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Uh...
Probably like...2nd or 3rd grade.


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