How old were you when you started to use the computer?

[Fei Ling]

I just want to know how old you guys were when you started to use the computer!
Please answer honestly!

As for me, I started when I was just 4 years old!
I started to surf the net when I turned 5.
I had my Email add when I was just 8!

[Princely Dreaming Doll]

I started all of that except the e-mail when I was six.
I was bored an no one ever posed as a challenge to me so I was subscribed to go on the computer to get a challenge.


I'm sixteen and finally got an e-mail account I was so happy. See my mom never approved of e-mail.

[Bibi of the Blue Sea]

i think i was 12ish?
it was mostly in school though.

[B_F_F]

Wow, 4 years old.
Neat!
Me, I started to use the computer at age 8.
I started to surf the net at age 10.
But I'm still 11 so I have to say I'm not so good!

[PleilA]

i started at 13 or 14, but i am 23 years old

[Eris]

Around 8-9 I think, though I'm not at all sure.

[[Boolean]]

6 or 7. Before then we didn't have a computer.

[Kieys]

I was 4 and i used internet when i was 6

[DontBlink]

I was like mabye 5, I really don't remember.

[Kiwii]

started to use it at 8
learned to surf a few days after
learned of google at 9
and learned of emails a few months after

[aasgnt]

91' Our brand new 486 cost over two grand. ><

[Storm Strife]

3 or 4 years old, except I used an Amiga and a Commodore 64 instead of a PC. Computer days came to me from 5-8, where I was basicaly so addicted (and still am) to the computers that I was only allowed to use them on Wednesdays and Sundays...man I looked forward to those days so much...

First time I went on the world wide web was in year 7 of secondary school, age 11 or 12, first email address coming at the same age. Reason for this is because we couldn't afford any form of internet connection at home, so school was the only time I could surf the web....until my grandfather got AOL. Around that time I immediatly started to hate AOL. So, as a recap (and a note beforehand - I was born on December 5th, 1987, so I will go one year over to adjust for the fact that the event might have happened the following year) -

First computer experience: 1990-1992, age 3 or 4
First computer days: 1992-1996, age 5-8
First net experience & first email address: 1998 - 2000, age 11 or 12

[Sagat]

i started at 13 or 14, but i am 23 years old

Same here, remember playing DOS games like DarkSeed and crap on my 486/DX computer

I feel like a freaking dinosaur

[PleilA]

sagat , no kidding, my elementry school , from gr. k-8 only got good computers and the interent when i was grade 7 and thats when i started using the internet, or more grade 8 even. did u use the computers that had a little ball instead of a mouse? lol those peices of crap computers were such crap. can i say crap people? im saying crap

[Sakura Holic]

I think 3-4 years old. I got this toddler game I used to play. And I still have the CD game now too...
o.o

[Storm Strife]

I think 3-4 years old. I got this toddler game I used to play. And I still have the CD game now too...
o.o

Not that incredible really...I still have a number of of my Amiga games, and my Amiga (defunct due to faulty external HDD)

PleilA: I recommend you remove that curse word....otherwise the mods will be on your arse because of it.

[bluesoul]

I havent started to actually use a computer until about two or three years ago.

[Lilium Filix]

I was first introduced to the computer at the age of 5! ^^
It's been my pal ever since. XDD

~The Angel has spoken~
~AEK~

[Eris]

91' Our brand new 486 cost over two grand. ><

Our first computer was one of those too, DX i think, or was it SX?. Though, it was somewhat old when we got it, so it was more like 200 bucks, but still. Ah, I remember the old days of programming qBasic on that thing.

Same here, remember playing DOS games like DarkSeed and crap on my 486/DX computer

I feel like a freaking dinosaur

Haha, join the club. Did you play the Commander Keen games? Probably the best games ever made.


Question: What do you do infront of a computer when you're as young as some of you seem to be? Not like reading is anything you're that proficient with when you're 3...?

[Storm Strife]

I actualy learnt to read at around the age of 3 or so. In fact, in nursery school (or kindergarden as it's known as in the US) I used to read to the other kids.

Generaly I just played mindless video games. That's all the Amiga and Commodore was used for when I was younger....actualy I also played a couple of Fun School games as well.

[Gjallarhorn]

About 3 or 4 years old. My father has been working in the computer industry (generally in memory storage and customer service) since before the first P.C. was introduced, and when a single computer could fill an entire room.

[anime OG]

i was in the fourth grade so i will say about 9 years old!!!!

[Cat_Demon]

i started when i was 3 (played video games on it)

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Round... 7-9? 486 Packerd Bell, and not one of their better models. Ran Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

I recall playing a lot of Tuneland (click on stuff, hear songs. Voiced by Howie Mendel[I don't care enough to check If I spelled his name right.]) Later, my best friend and I started playing the Conquest of Elysium II Demo, which is fairly awesome. We had to have played it over 1000 hours. On a demo.

[Luna13]

I used the computer to play games when I was 6. When I was about 8 or so I used the computer to play online games. Then when I just barely turned 13 I used it it surf,chat,email,etc.