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Put another way, what is your earliest "geek" memory -- what inspired your interest in "geek"/tech? For example, mine is sitting on my father's lap as he laboriously copied lines of code from the back of a magazine into the input field on his computer, at which point it would do something mundane like draw a square that floated across the screen or something "exciting" like playing the William Tell Overture through the dinky PC speaker. ;) I also remember watching him use CompuServe and that was totally the start of my interest in computer mediated communication, otherwise known these days as social media and the Internet. |
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When I was young my dad bought me my first computer which was a very basic Amstrad. It was provided with a Basic compiler. I remember my excitement back then, I was fascinated by the fact that by just writing a serie of incomprehensible lines of code you can build a very fun game or make a program that plays your favourite music! For me it was much more closer to art than technology! After that, I discovered the Web and tried to build my first web site (html/javascript) and I was also interested in hacking and security. When I was 16, I focused on C/C++ to make games. It was very exciting. Programming (which is the side of technology that interests me the most) makes you feel absolutely in control (when you're on your computer at least), like you can pretty much make whatever you want! Just dream about anything and makes it happen! And for me..that's still art :) |
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It started at live.pirillo.com a few years ago. Before that I didn't know anything about social media, computers and wasn't interested in more than gaming. When I watched him at the live video feed I kinda got infected with geeks and technology ;) Then I found out that I love computers and tech overall since then I've been a computer geek :D |
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When I was about 3 or 4 years old, and I used to watch my sister do her school reports on a verryyy old version of Microsoft Word, she showed me how to do annotations, draw things in paint, etc. I can also remember my Mum installing software via command line and thinking "OMGWUT" (again, when I was about 4). That's what really spurred it off - since then I've always been interested in tech. I always get asked for help and support with using computers now. Hah. |
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I would say my stepfather, he was an engineer in the Air Force and wrote a lot of code for them. When he came back we got our first computer, this was early 80's so it was a TRS80 color that i posted in another thread. from then on I was hooked. I even had the Sega Channel from Cablevision back in the day before high speed internet that's how hooked I was haha. |
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No inspiration, I have just been using computers from an early age, I had fun messing with the BBC Micro Computer probably since I was probably one year old, and then we had Winodws 95 when I was very young and have been using computers ever since. |
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I would say that it was partly me and partly Chris Pirillo. I used to watch him on TechTV and that is how I really got interested in the whole technology field. And it was partly my interest wanting to play with all the new gadgets and see how they worked and were put together. |
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I started using computers when I was in Kindergarten. I just fell in love with computers. I can remember playing Oregon Trail and other games at school (Fun times). |
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I had always been interested in construction, engineering, and design. I loved putting things together and figuring out better ways to accomplish the same task. The first time these interests drew me to the computer was this fascinating technology called Hypercard, invented by one of the most brilliant and important people in the industry and world of graphical user interface designs, Bill Atkinson. Hypercard was a simplistic object oriented graphical development platform. It was designed to allow non-programs to make apps in a visual based environment, along with a humanistic english like programming language called HyperTalk. The idea of constructing and designing applications like you would in the real world blew me away. Ever since, I've been obsessed with the idea of a universal object oriented platform that allows a person to develop applications in a more "real world" graphical form. Sadly, these types of IDEs are a rare to come across :( |
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i remember that when i was about 7 my grandad had a windows 95 laptop and i used to love playing solitare and such on it, from there really i loved tech, i got better than all my family and now they ask me for help. |
