Where did your interest in technology come from?

Where did your interest in technology come from?

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Unironically video games, and whether they want to admit it or not, it's the same for most of Jow Forums.

>use Blender for a while
>realize that what I'm doing can be done by a monkey
>learn HTML, CSS, Java, Javascript
>realize that what I'm doing can be done by a monkey

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Once I hit puberty and started reading about every kind of topic, i started to dive into pc gaming and how it worked, reading about software development and what goes on behind my scream blew my mind and made me see things with a much different lookm especially after becoming privacy concious, so now I strive for a career on the security area, both hardware and software security, either that or a game dev

I try to explain to my friends why all of this fascinates me so much, but I dont often have success, thats why I lurk on Jow Forums so much

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>study law
>realize what I do can be done by a monkey
>see other lawyers defend cases
>wew, they are worse than monkeys

i was born into it because of my mom's interest in technology and to top it off i didn't have any friends when i was a child so it was hard for me to have cooperative hobbies

Video games & consumer electronics, mother was a database analyst/contractor in London so we had all the latest tech.

Also I made one of those pixel sites to become a millionaire, it didn't work.

>go to uni
>learn engineering
>figure I'll learn C++ so I can put it on my resume or code prototypes with arduinos
>meet a guy at job fair, get offered programming job
>realise I actually don't know shit about what the job requires
>have to keep on reading books so they don't find out how incompetent I am
>lurk Jow Forums so I can use buzzwords on coffee breaks to make it look like I'm working on stuff

I spent a lot of time on chatrooms as a kid and they were insecure as shit in those days so I viewed the hackers as wizards, I thought they were cool as fuck, so I wanted to become one.

>it is the 80's
>I am 5 or 6 years old
>my family visits a rich friend's place
>rich friend has a son my age
>rich friend has a computer
>"let me show this cool game on the computer"
>->->-> What's a computer?

This, without video games I doubt anyone would be interested in technology.
When I was a kid I didn't know to install games and it was frustrating that I need to depend on my father who has control on which games I can play.
So fuck him and I decided doing it myself and slowly I was that guy who are into computers and who fix PC's for free.

Funny I had a friend who had BSOD all the time and for him it was frustrating that he needed to depend on my, fixing his shit and he start studying it a lot and become tech person like me, funny even better but I didn't want to admit it when I was a kid.

back when I got my first computer I thought it was cool and shit, don't know why

pretty much this
>be little shit
>want to play quake2 multiplayer with little shit friends
>have to connect computers somehow
>use 56k modem to read internet about this 'LAN' thing
>get a switch
>setting up lan is more fun than playing the game itself

I just wanted to be like my older brother.

my dad was an og at cisco

VIDYA. Sad but true.

autism

being abused as a child

boredom

It might have been my introversion. as a kid I loved lego, either technic or normal, but then I built spaceships and such.

At ~8 I got a gameboy, which I loved to death. Then I got a PC I wasnt THAT much into vidya, but my friends were and I'm sure it influenced me massively.

I never had much interaction with my uncle, and never met my grandpa, but they were very into technology. My grandpa was a radio engineer, early TV adopter, and my uncle is a massive radio enthusiast. It might even be genetic, because I'm more interested in communication as well, only with computers instead of playing gaymes.

My neighbor's mom

She always had the latest and greatest back in the early 90's. Also she bought her son a Sega Megadrive, and we played with that a lot.

Poverty probably helped a lot actually. I got to use old computers, I remember the thinkpad running windows 3.1 that I got to use for a hour at a time and I loved.

Later I got a shitty pentium 2 PC, then a p3, etc. that I had to take apart, fiddle with to get working. If I had just gotten a nice XP gaming machine or a console and had a viable internet connection I might have not learnt as much and just played vidya like my friends.

>dad brings me to work to show me a computer (soviet knockoff of System/360) for my 6th birthday
>shows me some demo program they made for expositions.
>not impressed
>ask how it works
>starts babbling about hw
>"dad i'm not interested in your EE peasantry, what do these nonsensical lines mean"
>gives me operating manual, including the glorious language fortran and shows me the rest of university
>autism mode engaged
>read manual as he babbles on about things they do at the university
>he ended up basically teaching me automata theory that day
We emigrated to switzerland few weeks later and i never got to play around with it.
Now obsessively making computers buy/sell in under 1.5 microseconds for an HFT firm.

you okay user

Dad and his 386sx in 1991 when I was gooogoo gaga
Then mid 90s when 3d gaming and consoles pc hit mainstream arcades etc emulators lans
Sadly lan culture is dead but my passion lives on

Great taste Prince of Persia 1989 is a classic

yeah im fine thanks lad
watching the game tonight?

porn

Atari ST got me started
Running Quake/TFC servers for friends
Making a website for my clan, hosting teamspeak servers
Automating things with scripts
Understanding networking, Linux etc
Now i work in DevOps for a bank

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Duh

Reee wagie

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This is me. As a kid I wanted to make a video game.

My dad's pocket calculator.

>the falcon is a 30 year old boomer
wew

>help set up old Macintoshs as a elementary school kid
>found putting cords and stuff together to get a computer to work interesting
>mess with windows 2000 on compaq at home
>use paint to draw my old OCs
>take a Java programming class in high school which got me interested in creating software
>end up getting a Bachelors for CS
and here I am programming C# at $12/hr, while messing with Gentoo on all my machines at home.

video games

my dad always worked in tech and so there was always computers around when i was young.
also

let me guess, you are a faggot now

exactly me, have since abandoned vidya but am still interested in computers and will be stating a degree for it soon hoping to find my niche

Friend’s dad was super heavy into Red Hat Linux (he had several stickers on cabinets and things) and built my friend PCs, so we always played the latest and greatest.

If you still lurk here Steve I’m sorry about what happened with your son, still eats me up to this day. Hope Jill is doing alright.

Vidya and robots. one of my earliest memories is really really wanting a robot dog toy. I've never been good at tech because i was poor af AND im a lazy fucker but i always found tech fascinating.