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Re:Ask HN: How old were you when you got your first computer? by Beanblabber on Saturday May 09, 2009 @03:53PM (#601335)
Once my mother was working on a big project for her work in word. So, she was pretty much done when she hit Ctrl-A + spacebar. She panicked. All that work wasted. My 4 year old self heard her yelling in the other room and I came in. She explained what happened and I just pressed Ctrl-Z. Everything was back. She thought I was magical.

My first computer was about when i was 3. Well, I always had computers around but I started using them and surfing the web at around 3(which pretty much amounted to silly little games). But I knew the ins and outs of Windows and how to get around and figure stuff out.

I got my own personal computer at around 10.

Now, I'm 14 and I'm just getting into programming and Linux.

Re:Ask HN: How old were you when you got your first computer? by swombat on Saturday May 09, 2009 @06:13PM (#601502)
If you're for real, you're one scary motherfucker. I'm glad I'm not in the job market anymore.