How did you guys start learning about how computers work? To be honest...

How did you guys start learning about how computers work? To be honest, it sort of blows my mind a lot of you started when you were kiddos.

I get pretty lost in all the jargon/etc. I also pretty much don't get how hacking works.

Other urls found in this thread:

youtu.be/4QbNmE3GZAw
amazon.com/Primer-Plus-6th-Developers-Library/dp/0321776402
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

I will create the blog. I guess my first experience with a computer was when I was 5 back in in 2004. My mother wanted me to learn english so she bought a pre-built hp computer with an intel pentium processor. Back in those days, doing grammatical exercises on the PC was quite innovative. Then I became 8 and for the next three years besides those I started using buying demo games. C&C Tiberium wars was one of them. Then at the age of 12 I wanted to dwell a little bit more with computers so I did some random 'projects' on Visual Basic 2010. Literally trash tier garbage. I remember calling my mom to show her an 'Operating System' I have made just by copy pasting some neato weato scripts like a script kiddy.
At the age of 15 I grasped upon my first programming language, Java. Yes Java fucking Java. Because murrr hurrr durr Minecraft and shit. Then I took a step back and realized that Java won't get me anywhere, so I started with python and algorithms, and now at the age of 18 I am trying to gain all of the good practices of C.

Thank you for reading my blog m8.

I was just a curious kid, nothing crazy

To be completely honest it all started because of minecraft. I wanted to set up a server and it didnt quite work. Had to troubleshoot a lot of shit and learned on the way.
>inb4 underage bait
it was actually back in 2012 when i was 19

I started at 19 in Sup Forums memes convinced me to install Linux. I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron and it was like I emerged from a lifetime of living in a cave. It was an OS that would allow me to change any part of it I desired, not just the wallpaper and arbitrary user settings but I could change the way it operated on a fundamental level. I just had to learn how to do that, it made me feel like I could become a wizard.

How old are you now and did you finally achieve high wizardry?

I'm 27 and I can easily administer Linux networks and I'm currently making a video game in C and Lua

I learned by doing starting at around 10, driven by the reward of pirated shareware games and furry porn.

>hacking
90% of hacking is tricking people into telling you their password.

started when i was 8. friends came over with red alert 2 and my dad saw it. he procced to teach me how computers work and got me into it.

Here is my blog OP, chances are, you are doing research due to the data mining nature of this thread, but here you go anyway.
Dad noticed I would break Windows installs because I wanted to reduce its size badly, so he taught me how to format my PC (which I used for gaymes), back in 2000. Two years later I was wondering how programs displayed text so he taught me about programming, ended up writing a small shitty dbase program with lots of hand holding, read about it in 2 or 3 days and the curiosity was long gone, also because I did not see any shekel potential since I could only think in small scale, ergo not seeing the point of in-store database programs. I wanted to step up by trying to understand how operating system is done, got internet in 2006 and started to download whatever article on assembly I could find, modified a small boot loader but stopped pursuing that feat when I found out that writing drivers for undocumented chips would be a pain in the ass and could not afford to losing hardware. I also had strong interests towards transformers toys because they were kinda moddable.
In a different world, I would be the kid that disassembled things for fun, not the one that created. Computers are still toys in my mind and I fail big time to realize why people puts their life in them. I also don't know how any business would benefit from databases but I am only given buzzwords whenever I ask about it.

>Computers are still toys in my mind
How depressing

None of the Sup Forums users actually know how computers work. The only thing Sup Forums does is talk about wallpapers, arch "customisation", linux superiority, graphics cards and other pointless shit.

start with this

I first learned about computers in 1978, I first used one in 1979 and bought my first one in 1983. I first came to 4choons in 2006.

I am SERIOUSLY oldfag

don`t forgeting larping

Because that is exactly what personal computers are. Number crunching is for researchers and there, and transactions are for... What exactly? Website development has dubious benefit for businesses. Then there is AI, but it is a meme that have yet to see an application.

I got a hand me down windows 95 machine when I was a kid in the 90s. It wasn't connected to the internet since I kept it in my room and it couldn't even run starcraft. So I just fucked with it all the time.

> Number crunching is for researchers and there, and transactions are for... What exactly?
Number crunching is for researchers and there aren't many jobs on that field, and transactions are for... What exactly?*
Maybe I should sleep.

My dad is a self-taught software engineer so I've been exposed to computers all my life. I started out around 12 where I was installing Ubuntu on my laptop and making shitty batch files on windows. Soon after that I got into hacking. I started with shit like hackthissite. When I made it to highschool I took the networking/cybersecurity and programming courses and stated participating in CTFs. CTFs and shit like that taught me the most out of anything else I've done. Now, in college, I'm doing computer science with a focus in security. I participate in a lot of CTFs and school clubs.

>learning about how computers work?

You must be new here.

95% of Sup Forums just wants to talk about the latest iPhone.

I wouldn't consider myself knowledgeable. Kinda stumbled into my IT field.

It was allure of them. I couldn't get one for the longest time. My mom didn't want to get one until after 2000 because the y2k bug was going to destroy them anyway why waste the money.

So I'd sneak time at school. All the schools around here had Macs running System 7 so when I unwrapped that shiny Windows 98 machine nothing like it man.

The World at your Fingertips™.

Getting into all kinds of trouble with piracy and hacking etc. Hell if you hack today you'll probably get the death penalty. Was all fun and games back then though.

Eventually I wanted to learn more so I started digging setting up my own network taking programming classes at school. For some reason programming satisfied a foreign language requirement so it didn't fuckin matter I failed spanish.

Basically I didn't have any friends so I substituted the internet for friends.

Ironically this seems to be what everyone does these days so I was just ahead of the curve I guess?

Thank you for reading like comment and subscribe and use promo code TYRONE for 25% off a BLACKED.COM yearly subscription.

Pic related.

I had something like this, except it was made in soviet union.

I first became interested in how everything works because our first PC wasn't high spec enough to run Morrowind. I watched a friend of my dads install a Geforce 4 MX440 and it took off from there. Fast forward a few years and I started gathering parts to build my own computer. My dad and I used to go to those huge open parts markets hosted in leisure centers. Today, i've got most of the meme devices like a Raspberry pi, ThinkPad and Blackberry. I rebuild and maintain hardware for people now in the hopes that their interest will be sparked like mine was.

>started getting interested in how computers work only at 19
Leave

>I was 5
>2004
Underage fags get off my lawn

I'm a /tg/fag, live action roleplaying?

fight me you Sup Forumsook, im 18 now. YEAH

I got Xbox Live and started modding Halo 2 when I was 13, from there I gradually learned more and more about computers, eventually I bought a book on C++ and started using botnet (NzM IRC) then I fell out for research into Jews and history, now I am getting back into computers, mainly programming, bought a book on hacking, gonna multiboot a Linux distro when I get my new Dell XPS.

Here are some of my old mods:

youtu.be/4QbNmE3GZAw

The first computer I ever saw was when I was 15yo... 17 years ago. It was in a public internet cafe/gaming club. Shit was cash, I spent days watching people play Age of Empires, Diablo and Starcraft. I started playing myself, always nervous in the menus and folders before the game started. Looked like magic to me... I had memorized the clicks and what to open in order to get to the game and start it... hilarious stuff when I remember it.

After awhile I heard about the Internet, started browsing sites, waiting 15 minutes for a single pic to open, my first chat rooms were awkward and exciting.

A couple years after my first PC experience a rich uncle bought me a laptop. I still have it altho it no longer works, a magnificent Dell with a Pentium 2 top kek. This is the moment I started learning stuff. It was still a few years before I got Internet at home, so I spent my time messing with the OS, installing and uninstalling games and programs, testing everything manually without any guides. I kinda... figured things out with time, I must have reinstalled the OS a thousand times lol.

With time I got Internet at home, a proper PC, started reading online resources, figured out macos a shit, experimented with gentoo, fell in love with windows mobile for awhile, got a job and with money for more powerful PCs, started assembling my own machines, playing around with the old ones until I burned them to shit with overclocking or just disassembling, found Sup Forums... and then Sup Forums, etc.

I consider myself an above average tech enthusiast, I can manage all my tech by myself and for what I cannot figure out, I know where to look for answers. The only thing I never figured out properly is how to code. I think it's too late now, I got a job, a family, barely any time to learn new stuff.

[blogpost]

amazon.com/Primer-Plus-6th-Developers-Library/dp/0321776402

Always time to learn.

I also read this, which helped a lot.

ayy I'm quite similar to you except I'm a C++/Rust fag

I'm torn between C and C++, C keeps updating its ANSI standard so it's resembling C++ more and mor, C used to be a purely procedural programming language but since C99 standard classes were added making it OOP too just like C++. Neither have a simple datatype to allocate one byte (octet) though, you'd probably have to make a class for it, WinAPI has the BYTE type I think.

Was a young lad.
Got given a thinkpad r54
Got given internet communication
Explored my curiosities
Taught myself anything I needed to know about anything because I had a portal to information at my fingertips with dialup

End result was spending 14 years on Sup Forums as of tomorrow and applying my knowledge to less practical uses that allow me to have a hobby collecting development equipment and have proper upkeep and handling to ensure they last and are properly documented.

Was 8 when I was given that laptop in 2004

I got a computer for my birthday when I was 8, eventually it broke and I tried to fix it myself.
That's about the whole story.

On most platforms a char takes up one byte (at leat one byte by definition). Why is this a problem for you anyways?

>2004
>I was 5
K Y S
Y
S

Becsuse by default output shows a character rather than a value

I took apart my pc to fix it when I was 11, fixed it, learned as I fixed it, got curious about how it worked after I fixed it, developed an interest in computers, then I proceeded to study comp sci and comp eng 8 years later.

I read a book on how to program. It's not fucking rocket science you just do what the fucking book tells you to do. Hell, I assume if you want to learn rocket science you can just buy a book and do what it fucking tells you to do.

I really liked gaymes as a kid. Unfortunately I wasn't interested in much besides just paying them, and the occasional urge to gather a bunch of high end components to maximize performance. I was basically a normie. It's really frustrating because I had a lot of opportunity to actually learn how things work and stuff, but I didn't and I highly regret that now. Everything was abstract to me, and I didn't care how things worked under the hood. I knew that hard drives stored data, and the processors processed data, but i didn't know or care how they did so. There was even a time when I assumed that hard drives were the same technology as CDs because they looked vaguely similar. One time I even tried putting a Windows executable for a SNES emulator on a flash drive, thinking I could run it on a (non-jailbroken) PS3.

So basically I only recently (in the past few years) started to understand how computers work, and I regret being such a dumb kid who only cared about pointless vidyagames.

>people born in 1999 are old enough to use Sup Forums

I've been around computers since I was 3 when my dad bought our first IBM compatible in 1993. I didnt start getting interested in computer and internals until our Windows 98 PC when my dad brought home a CD burner drive and opened the computer and showed me how computers could be upgraded and expanded with cards and drives. After that day I was always curious how they worked and would often open the side case after dark to study it.

pic related is the computer that started it all for me

>age of empires
> diablo
those were the golden days of my youth. Me and my friends used to carry our pc by hand a mile(eurofag) or so to have a LAN .Glorious times.

time passes quickly, doesn't it?