Can you remember the first time that you used a computer?

I can. I was only 5 years old but it was that kind of feeling you can hardly forget. The computer was a Commodore 64. I thought that it was simply a game station because gaming was all we used to do at that time at home.

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My older brother managed to convince my father to buy that C64. I'm not sure if I would’ve had the chance to connect with technology at that age otherwise. Being the youngest of 4 siblings wasn’t that bad after all!

Looking back I can say that my dad became the facilities department of my amateur computer career on those early days. This is something you usually take for granted: your parents provide all those required assets four your personal development. Unfortunately this is not the case for a huge number of children around the globe. So better we take that power and use it wisely ;)

After C64 it was time to move to a 386 machine. Dad got one used from a friend of him who was upgrading to a 486 and didn’t use the old 386 anymore.

And so this little 386 became the glory to me: trading games in floppy disks with my friends and then installing them involved basic execution of DOS commands. And learning to do it felt so good! How can you forget the adrenaline and all those heavy sounds when you hit enter to a format a: command?

At school the computer related subjects just sucked. The most memorable day was when in 6th grade our teacher introduced the logo programming language. Great times drawing on the screen with the cute little turtle <3

I realize now that it took me a while to get started into deeper computer knowledge or programming itself. It seems I was comfortable enough just being a user. Even logo didn't ring any bells. At least not that I can consciously tell. Maybe I was just a little above the average user as a kid.

But then with the next PC upgrade things started to scale to the next level..