technology When did you get your first computer

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,441]

@Splashee In my defense I was 4 and the computer lasted like a year before it broke. But I remember After Dark!! I loved After Dark. We also had that bowling for elves game and the first You Don’t Know Jack.

[EpicEnergy 23,224]

I got my first computer when I first when to college.

[YoshiFanGM 50]

I was like 13 years old when I got my first computer, around 2005 I think. It was an Intel Celeron 1.8 GHz with 128 MB of RAM (minus 32 MB of integrated video memory) and 40 GB of storage.

It had Windows XP as the main OS, though there was a time where it got downgraded to Windows Me cuz it ran a bit slow with XP (many of the applications were still compatible with Me at the time, so it wasn't much of a problem). It eventually got XP again and was upgraded to a 3.33 GHz CPU with 1 GB of RAM.

[Splashee 28,566]

When I was 17 I got my own computer. It was my life!

[Cynthia Mintwing 2,216]

Do laptops count? I got my first computer when I was around 10 (8 years ago). It's a lenovo laptop with an AMD E1-1200, Radeon HD graphics, and Windows 8. I was the happiest kid when I received it on my bday.

[Denim&Venöm 19,307]

A decade ago. It was an Asus netbook. 

[CheeryFox 23,822]

The summer of 2004.

[ChikaChan 7,326]

I got mines in 2012 from bestbuyI'm still using it right now

[King of Canterlot 9,603]

Lets see, my first computer was an HP laptop that I got when I was in 8th grade, it was supposed to replace a Samsung Tablet that I had gotten several years earlier but because there was nothing wrong with my tablet I just kept using that for several years after and I only used my laptop for Google Earth. That was the case until my Sophomore year of High School, when my old tablet finally broke and I had to start using my laptop for everything. 

My laptop actually broke earlier this year in April shortly after I had already bought a brand new desktop computer to replace it because my laptop was starting to get very slow. My old laptop doesn't connect to the internet at all so it's a completely useless hunk of junk 

[Splashee 28,566]

No one should ask what they did with their first computer 

[BlankFlank777 199]

When I was about 11 my brothers and I shared a Windows XP computer handed down from our parents and we mainly used it to make cartoons and skits and stuff. The first and only computer I got for myself was an HP laptop that I got for college about 2 years ago and still use. When I bought it I didn't think of the fact that some laptops don't have a disc drive and that one doesn't so I hate it, but not just for that reason. It lacks a few essential features, like a number pad and aux input. It's total trash. It's got very little space too. I think it's like 500 GB. It's always full. I desperately need to upgrade. There are a lot of things I can't make progress on till I get an adequate laptop.

[Pentium100 2,179]

I think it was in 1996 (or maybe 1997). I remember that, at the time, Windows 95 was a brand new OS, almost nobody had it, most computers had Windows 3.11. I had a book about computers that showed how to use DOS and Windows 3.11 with only a few pages given to the new Windows 95. I think I still have that book somewhere.

[Splashee 28,566]

2 hours ago, Pentium100 said:

I think it was in 1996 (or maybe 1997). I remember that, at the time, Windows 95 was a brand new OS, almost nobody had it, most computers had Windows 3.11. I had a book about computers that showed how to use DOS and Windows 3.11 with only a few pages given to the new Windows 95. I think I still have that book somewhere.

Ha!

Just like me then. I also had Windows 95 (A version) before the rest of the world, in the early 1996. Computers were expensive and schools hadn't upgraded yet, so everyone was on Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6 or 6.22
Having Windows 95 and MS-DOS 7.0 was exciting! But it was also fun to go back to the older and learn how that worked as well. Knowing that Qbasic was gone from Windows 95 was sad, however, never discovered it in the olddos folder on the setup CD until much later

[Prospekt 11,021]

I got a Toshiba laptop on my 6th birthday. I just used it for games and, when I started middle school, I used it for homework. Now it's too old to safely surf the web (never mind the fact that it isn't even Wi-Fi compatible) but I have never gotten rid of it.

[A French Derpy full of Salt 404]

my family always got a computer and everyone was using it.

I had my very own at 14~15 years old in my chamber. it was powerful enough to play crysis at 20 FPS in the lowest settings. I hold onto it until my 18.

Edited August 12, 2020 by A French Derpy full of Salt

[JacobClark86 0]

My first computer was 20 years old, it was a long time ago)