>I learned computer stuff fixing and tinkering with barely working computer.
Being relatively young (born after 2000), I wouldn't be here were it not for the Core 2 Duo HP machine I got in 2014-ish after my father fired some people from his company and was left with surplus machines. It ran a, at that point, 6? year old install of Vista with all the HP bloat, had 2 gigs of RAM, a 160GB HDD, no internet connection and came with a 5:4 display to match. Christ did I love that machine. I spent hours in front of it. Getting games to work. Getting pirated software off the web (downloaded on our "main" family PC that I still used to play Minecraft over the network with friends), onto a 2 gig pendrive, often in parts and copying it over. Learning how archives work in general. How to re-install Windows, partition a drive, modify the OS visually, install language packs, struggle heavily to get .net 3.5 on Windows 8 without the net... That's the exact moment I fell in love with computers. Well, I most likely fell into obesity at that point as well, but ignoring that it's all been positive. Then I got the Internet and it went down quickly.
Being relatively young (born after 2000), I wouldn't be here were it not for the Core 2 Duo HP machine I got in 2014-ish after my father fired some people from his company and was left with surplus machines. It ran a, at that point, 6? year old install of Vista with all the HP bloat, had 2 gigs of RAM, a 160GB HDD, no internet connection and came with a 5:4 display to match. Christ did I love that machine. I spent hours in front of it. Getting games to work. Getting pirated software off the web (downloaded on our "main" family PC that I still used to play Minecraft over the network with friends), onto a 2 gig pendrive, often in parts and copying it over. Learning how archives work in general. How to re-install Windows, partition a drive, modify the OS visually, install language packs, struggle heavily to get .net 3.5 on Windows 8 without the net... That's the exact moment I fell in love with computers. Well, I most likely fell into obesity at that point as well, but ignoring that it's all been positive. Then I got the Internet and it went down quickly.