Where did your interest in technology come from?
Where did your interest in technology come from?
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
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
>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?