25. Law student. Toronto, Canada (YES, Canada DID send a ship to the Middle East, except Joe and Ernie got drunk and Bob crashed the helicopter onto the deck - plus, they ran out of beer. So, they came back.)
AverageJoe: We have around 16 ships, a few of them are "frigates" or what we would like to call frigates. We have a bunch of helicopters, though, except they keep falling out of the sky for some reason. Most of the ship crews are guys from North Bay or other boonie areas who are bored on weekends and are promised free beer by the gov't if they would man the ships . . . . :-)
I'm 16. My boyfriend who is 19 introduced me to this website,and i've kept coming back ever since. Boyfriend is in college, i'm still stuck in High School. Planning to graduate with Academic Honors Diploma, so i've already looked at many colleges at my age. I may be only 16, but I catch on things very quickly. :)
I'm 16, 17 June 30. dude being 16 rules. school is a breeze, i dont need a job, and i can get b's and c's without doing jack (by that i mean sleeping / cd player / cell phone playing)
next school years gonna be ridiculous..sorry, i just have to say my schedule!!
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15, I looked at that link that Olo Eopia gave to us, and noticed the really "cool" comment he made. Didnt rate it at all, no tips, just "is that a joke".
Last year I knew how to navigate web pages, leave him alone - and while your at it bring your maturity level up to your age.
oh yeah, i miscalculated..for some reason i subtracted 10 from 26 and came up with 16..and ya know..16 is normal nowadays to have a child..BUT..the 10 is the difference in your age and mine..and 10 yrs old is just ridiculous..i'm sorry :(
you know, we, the older ones should shut up when it comes to young people using computer, most of the time a 12 or 14 year old kid can kick our ass. For them, computers are something natural, we are the ones (well, older than me =P) who need to learn about computers. In fact, I ask to someone younger for help when I had a problem, not someone older.
that is a common mistake I think... most younger people I know start to degenerate when it comes to computers... sure they know who to handle it, but many of them don't have a deeper understanding... computer games don't make you understand the thing you're using.
Well, anyway, it's just my limited horizon, probably there are also many ones of the kind you refered to, anetalaya =)
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Intelligent and logical answer. I am working with Pc for nearly 6 Years now, but my custo time starts a few months ago. It is little bit crazy, ins't it?
There are I believe two generations of experienced computer users.
Those of my generation 28-35, who got hooked during the 8-bit revolution of the 80s. We had our Commodore 64s, Tandys, BBC Micros, Sinclair Spectrums, Amstrads & Atari 800s. We dabbled with 8-bit basic, forth and played with turtles in logo. We upgraded to Amigas & Atari STs, got our first mice and found out what an icon was. Here we got our first taste of customising (before there was even a scene) and showed off our cool desktops to our friends. I had a quicklaunch menu and re-designed all the icons on my Amiga. Eventually we all bought PCs & Macs and the rest of the world joined us.
The next generation 14-20 year olds discovered computers after the console revolution of the late 80s & early 90s when it became desirable and useful to have a PC in the home. The internet became popular, everybody got an e-mail address and an opinion and newsgroups became communities. Kids started to get their own PCs and showed off their cool desktops to their friends.
Of course this is a massive generalisation, but I think it's true for a lot of people.
I loved 8-bit, I loved my Commodore 64, and I even learned to program in BASIC. I remember how thrilled I was when I got a full meg (1) for my Amiga 500 in 1990. NO hard drive, HUGE mouse, and plenty of disk-swapping.
In 1994 I got a PomwerMac (6100/60) THE FIRST POWERMAC MODEL!!! I had this mac, (upgraded only the RAM to 24 megs - nothing more), until early June 2002!! Now I have a PC. WOW, time does fly........
19, 20 in may. i've been doing this since i was about 14 tho. i was a regular on the old custo, before it had user comments, back when you had to email your submissions to Gllen and he'd update the site every two or three days.
18, and I got started with custoing when I discovered I could change the colors of my GW-BASIC environment back in the 80286 days...
I feel kinda old, because I cut my teeth on Amigas and trusty 286, and I think most of 16-20 year olds on the scene (not all, but most) didn't get interested in computers until those new-fangled CD-ROM drives rolled out.
You're oldskool when you remember wondering who could ever afford a 4X CD-ROM... or FA/18 Interceptor - Cracked by: T H E D R A G O N
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17, 18 July 1st got my own computer when I was 15, been dabbling with them for 6 years now. got into customizing on my join date here. had about a month before I started to understand all the ropes. Everyone I know in the real world comes to me for help with their PC's now. Flattering, but annoying as well.
17, 18 june 12th heh iv had a comp since i was 13.. not sure when i started customize'n but i know it started with customize. 1999ish i think
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Giraffe, I'm 20 but I fit into your 28-35 catagory. I started with an Atari 800XL at about 4 years old, got an Amiga 500 at about 9 I think and moved up to a PC at 14. I only really started custoing (in the graphical sense anyway) with XP because I didn't like the lag and complication of external apps.
My first machine was an MC-10 color microcomputer by Tandy. Purchased sometime in 1983. It was horribly inadequate, even for then. I saved for months and bought it for around 180 dollars at radio shack. It had been discontinued and they were liquidating them. The clock speed was .89 MHz. Please note the decimal before the 8. It used the family T.V. as a monitor. It had 4kb of RAM. It could display 8 colors. I ran programs from a cassete player. I wrote a program I called "runner" on it. Two dots you could race across the screen. I was thrilled with this machine and loved it dearly.
Recently my 8 year old niece recieved a 2 gighertz P4 for X-mas. Her first words upon opening it were:
"Does it have a DVD burner?"
followed by:
"When do i get the internet?"
If someone would have told my 10 year old self in 1983 that someday you could store 4.7 gigs on removable media, I would have said:
"Sure, but you'll neeed a forklift to carry all that tape around."
And the internet was something that guy in "Wargames" did, but it wasn't the internet, it was a very cool thing you could do with a phone.
The times, they change.
::Any fool can fill a screen with random polygons::
lol... "A very cool thing you could do with a phone."
I remember that. I remember that 'web' getting popular too.
"Now wait, explain this again... I can make the text any color? And these things, links, they let you jump around in your document - AND open other documents from the documents? And I can put a background in my document? Anything I want? Like, I could make a document with a dinosaur for my background?"
And yeah... Fenris raises an interesting point. Is the 21-27 group (the one I probably fit in to) the Generation X of computing or something?
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good ole 26..... just fitting into that 21-27 age group, although I didnt get into computers until about 7...maybe 8 years ago, damn, typed one of my essays for college on it, and I could use a backspace key, instead of that peice of shit typewriter! ahh, so much fun, lol
@50cent0823, the FUCK? Dude, maybe things are different now, but when I was your age, I didn't have to leave home until 8:30 every morning, and I got home before 3:00 most days. After few long division and algebra problems and mapping out a sentence, (which usually only took an hour), it was time to fire up the Nintendo. Or if my parents wanted me to get out of the house for a while, I could meet some friends at the movies (and I still got a cheap ticket then), or hit Show Biz Pizza without getting any weird looks.
Let me tell you something man. There's nothing cool about growing up. There's nothing cool about working two jobs so you can afford to keep your car insured, finding out your first girlfriend is happily married - to someone else, or... heh, screw it. You won't believe me. I wouldn't have believed me either. =)
Fact is dude... in about five, ten years, you're gonna miss 13 like hell.
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i get up at 6:00 every morning, eat breakfast, shower, and walk to school. sit through honors biology and memorize the parts of the heart, respitory system, circulatory system, and parts of a frog and crayfish, and figure out why they're the way they are. plus, i have to sit through an hour of algebra II/ trig, where i am figuring out how to graph a logsitics growth curve, solve logarthmic functions, graph tilted hyperbolas, etc. then i have to listen to my english teacher explain why we have to write a 5 page essay on guatemalan political refugees in the united states. then i have to sit through spanish class and memorize verb forms and about 100 spanish vocab words. when i get home i have about 6 hours of homework from high school, not to mention one hour of piano practice, and about half an hour of chinese homework. and nintendo? forget it...i would have to study for the biology SATs or try to memorize how to graph ellipses, hyperbolas, parabolas, etc...
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@colossus, that was a funny history, I remember the old computers, altought I was more worried of learning to speak back in 1983 =P and we didn't have a phone until I was around 11 (was living in Patagonia arouind that time). But I do remember when a friend won an old mac, we used to spend sundays at their house, and we where all around that computer amuzed by it.
I was talking in my first post about how easy is for young people to learn anything related with computers, because for older people, if you whern't the kind of person who got interested that "weird thing called computer" in the 90's 80's, now is harder to understand them. For example: my parents: doesn't matter how many times I explain them how to use it, in very simple words, they don't understand what the hell I'm talking about. =P
Colossus, fork lift hah, all that tape, hah. Funny as hell, but very true.
"MY" first computer, as in the one that was actually MINE was a Tandy HX, no hard drive, ran off floppies, ran Desktop 1.0 off the floppy. I pretty much just played lame ass Qbasic games that my dad had found from BBS's a few years before that, he made a qbasic menu for me to organize my games for me, and tell me which disk to put in to play whatever game. It was neat I thought, and that's when I got into Qbasic , and began my shift from kid to geek :)
And now, my father is calling ME to help him with things! ha, oh the irony is wonderful, but I love it.
: Nothing's better than takin a dump and checkin out some uber hardware...well...hacking into microsoft while dropping off the Cosby's might be better :
26.. my first PC was an emerson 286, I use to run a BBS (Bulleting Board System) called iRONGATE BBS using the PCBoard Software it had the ability to run 8 nodes.. nodes meaning connections but of course all I could afford was 1 phone line.
I ran that board for like 2 years on my home phone line and when I lived at home, my parents would get upset because whenever someone called all they could hear was that modem screech :) needless to say, I was forced to run the board at night. But it was fun and I wish I still had that old PC with the board on it.
Does anyone remember playing old board games like Planets T.E.O.S or L.O.R.D (Legend of the Red dragon) or perhaps even Tradewars????
Brings back fond memories :) ;)
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