How long you've been using computers/the internet?

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I played around on my dad's Sun around 1990 (4 years old), and we had electronic word processors at school which I was called upon to fix occasionally, but I didn't have proper access until 1997 when we got an old 486 at home. It barely managed and internet connection, I mostly used it for DOS games and teaching myself qbasic. I'm very proud of this next fact: it actually succumbed to Y2K!! The email program we were using couldn't deal with the big dates.
Early 2000 we got a properly internet capable machine and I was instantly addicted

I started using computers in 1995 (I was 5 at the time) and have been using them ever since.

I've been using computers since I was 2 or 3, the internet since I was 7.

I smiled when someone mentioned they couldn't remember when they first got the Internet.

My first computer was a Tandy 1000, and I had no idea what I was doing. I knew how to type mysterious commands that started games, and that was all I cared about.

My first real computer was a Hewlett Packard 486DX2. I still remember the day I installed 128Kb of L2 cache in the form of DIP chips, and I realized what a HUGE performance increase it provided. I e-mailed Hewlett Packard a nasty e-mail telling them how irresponsible they were to not have installed it in the first place. Then I installed a Pentium overdrive CPU and I've been hooked on computer hardware ever since.

I'm proud that I still use the case from the first computer I built, which was back in 1997 when I was 19. The first CPU was a Cyrix DX100 which I overclocked to 120MHz on a 40MHz Front Side Bus. I still think highly of the Cyrix brand, because it was the best at the time. Yea that's right! I'm restarting a flame war that ended 8 years ago!

In 1994 my Dad got the Internet. I remember being confused by what the Internet was. I didn't realize that PRODIGY wasn't really the Internet, and neither did my pops. All I really cared about was feeding my porn addiction. It took me a year to finally realize PRODIGY wasn't the Internet, and there were was no nudity on it. In 1998 I moved to Denver and I'm proud that I was one of the first to get DSL.

I started taking them apart at 4. Didn't really find use for them beyond that till I was 8, when my mum got my sis and I emails on her old Mac. Ah... back when AOL was ALMOST passable as decent

I'm 21 now... so thats 17 years taking them apart, and only 13 actually doing something with them

15+ Years, Started in the early 90's, with a 486 and some 5 inch floppies.... Had my own computer at 10

Today I manage over a thousand servers and a 3Gigabit WAN at a Tier 1 enterprise data center... Clients include Social networking web sites, venture firms, e-commerce applications, content providers, and government contractors...

I am only a few years out from being a full time security consultant and a technologist

I've been using computers since I was 4. My dad introduced me to this Dorling Kindersly's Dictionary software, that really helped me to start talking (knowing how people with AS/autism don't speak until a later age).

Since 2000 at least.