How did YOU get into technology?

Porn. my entire venture into any new technological avenue was seeking out the aspects in which it can improve the porn.

came on here, bought a cheap thinkpad and installed linux and later an autism tiling wm and later learned C and then I peaced out because the skill ceiling on this board is basically tutorial hell, then I got multiple remote tech during the pandemic while I transitioned, got laid off from all of them, now i'm a part time neet who dresses in kigurumi :)

>>105938681
*multiple remote tech jobs during the pandemic

Vidya on the PC as young as I can remember. Had some of those Tonka games where you just click on stuff at like 3-4 years old. Got AoE2 at like 6-7, grew from there. Dad's work was getting rid of some ancient laptops and he nabbed one for me when I was 9-10. 4GB HDD and like 512MB of RAM in 2004ish. He borrowed it for some work trip and somehow forgot the password he put on it??? It came with the CDs for Windows XP so I had to learn how to install that on my own. Then just other random things.

>>105938571 (OP)
My father was a trains man

>>105938571 (OP)
Thru vidya gaems

>>105938571 (OP)
Spent too much time on the family computer

>>105938681
>i'm a part time neet who dresses in kigurumi
pics pls

>>105938571 (OP)
I dont remember

>>105938571 (OP)
picrel mostly

>>105938571 (OP)
It came to us

Probably computer class in school.

>>105938571 (OP)
Why do people hate technology so much on left wing sites?

>>105938571 (OP)
I liked technology ever since I was a little kid. I was in from the start.

my family is all techies. my dad was a web dev and my mom was big into video games (and shitty fantasy) before the 3d era

in fact it took me until adulthood to learn that Dragonlance wasn't just dime store smut winemom novels, but a D&D thing. I'm pretty sure my mom has like 90% of their bibliography (and it's all dogshit)

>>105939024
i feel like you were into technology before caring about people using webp
most normies wouldn't know what a webp is to begin with

>>105939135
Your mom sounds rad as fuck. Would bang.

Having a shitty dysfunctional family made computers my only real escapism.

When I was a kid in 1993 I saw a computer at my friend's house. We played Dune 2. From that point on I could not think about anything else other than computers but I was a poor east european kid. When my parents finally got me a computer in 1996 I promptly began to spend my entire life in front of it. I first learned Pascal, then C++. By around 2001 I was already one of the main developers on a successful MUD written in C++ in a time when these games were already starting to decline. I went into CS a few years later then became a programmer, and I am still making bank, in east european terms at least.

Being almost 40 now I realize that since that afternoon in 1993 I've never actually enjoyed anything more than the computer and it has overshadowed every aspect of my life and in fact in a way ruined it as I am unmarried with practically no romantic experience and will remain so. That feels a bit sad.

But then on the other hand I think I literally never wanted anything else more. So it is what it is, I can't really complain.

>>105939158
unfortunately she's fat, a total psycho, and in her age (and psychosis) has no fucking teeth anymore

also she is 100% BLACK

>>105938571 (OP)
I was cleaning out the shed with my mom when I was about 9. I came across her old Turbo Pascal book and it had an installation CD in it. I had just gotten my first hand-me-down computer. That was the huge Kickstart.

THEN The Matrix came out a few months after that and oooh boy. Now I'm a CISSP

>>105939211
Hmm... i want to say not a total deal breaker, but let's not meme ourselves here. Cool mom though.

>>105939144
Nah, it genuinely began to infuriate me that like half of the images I find on the web are webp, which 4chan doesn't allow you to upload. Which made me curious why the internet is being infested with webp images in the first place.

Before that I wasn't really INTO technology. I streamed my anime from crunchyroll and acquired music from spotify playlists.

>>105939215
>go to see the matrix with my dad and sister
>im like 7 or 8 at the time
>get out of the movie
>"so what did you think kid"
>"the action scenes were fun but they tried to get too philosophical, it seemed like a lot of the questions they ask had obvious answers, the slow mo was sweet tho"
>"THATTABOY KID"
my family was based tbqh

also we were the one family i know of that had an N64 at all and didn't have a copy of goldeneye, but we DID have a copy of Perfect Dark

>>105939242
>the only reason he's mad about webp is because he can't use them for ebin (you) farming

>>105938571 (OP)
>How did YOU get into technology?
i started browsing this website to own the chuds and ended up becoming close... friends with a few moderators who now help me in making the chuds seethe, and i dont really care about tech itself

>>105939258
I can't fucking upload the piece of shits here and I'm on mobile. The only way I found around this cocksucking problem is to either use squoosh or take a screnshoot which sends a shiver down my spine because this SHIT HOLE of a website got hacked because it was using outdated dogshit software.

>>105939313
>I'm on mobile.
you're the one in the wrong

>>105938571 (OP)
I had an SNES and sometimes it'd stop playing games; it gave me an appreciation for computing.

I always wanted to develop my own games, but over time, as I matured, well, I had to pay the bills. I decided to go into CS in college, but I'm a fucking shitskin so I went to a bad college and they wouldn't teach shit. They want you shipped off to the salt mines from there, to work in shitty outsourcing and shitty corpos while breeding 3.5 ugly goblinos for the Jews to sacrifice to Moloch.

I knew that the bounds of technology were way beyond the shitty C# and Java we were taught. I knew I could do more. Eventually I met a friend after class, who, for some reason, took an interest in me when I asked in a class "how can I expand my abilities in technology beyond my current means?". We became friends and he showed me Ruby on Rails, which I really took a liking to; this was during the Cloud and Web 2.0 bubble.

Working with Ruby on Rails allowed me to break out of the shitskin undercaste and work at more modern tech companies, doing better stuff than fucking Oracle migrations. Then, I learned other stacks. I got a linux laptop and I loved it; I also realized that Windows is shit and there's something beyond.

I decided to get on the Big Tech circuits back then and I did a lot of grinding, and I got hired by AWS right before the COVID New World Order. Unfortunately I also learned the hard way that Big Tech people are phonies and that people are paranoid about the "White Replacement" in the USA. I left in 2022 to pursue Apple but I also hated it, because it's nothing but Eurasian kids masturbating in H1B Disneyland, competing over Asian pussy scraps.

I still haven't lost my love of tech and I will never relent, but it kind of sucks to have invested your whole life into tech just to be told in the end "Goodbye! We don't need you anymore! We have AI now!". Shucks.

>>105939231
when she wasnt drinking she was cool, but alas

some of my earliest memories are watching her essentially speedrun A Link To The Past; on some days off she'd clear her file and play it front to back in one or two sittings over like 6 hours total

>>105939341
chatgpt post

>>105939313
I haven't bothered uploading a picture to this image board since 2023. This place sucks now. Even gay reddit is usually better.

I'm here forever so I check in once a month to make sure it's still dead and boring.

>>105939391
Kys kike

>>105939301
There's like 15 real people here, and 12 of them are from Bangladesh. You're probably arguing all day with the same dark brown person in every thread pretending to be a nazi.

>>105939398
Mm. Are you the guy angry about file formats or just some rando that doesn't like reddit because it's filled with fags and retards?

Just so you know, in 2025, if you're talking to an actual person on the internet, they're a fag or a retard. It's even worse here.

>>105939454
tfw im both a fag and retarded therefore i take up both slots so whoever im talking to must be smart and well informed so every conversation is a good conversation (for me, not for them probably)

It got into me

>>105939580
Haha. Thank you. You made this monthly fartchan check in worth it. Thought i was going to leave without a single laugh.

Windows 95 Encarta. It was a disc that had all sorts of neat world info on it. Later I got into Newgrounds and loved to browse it but never made an account. Plus in my 8th grade class we got a computer lab to learn typing. That was fun, I liked the games.

>>105939424
kek

>>105938571 (OP)
Troubleshooting.
Envisioning things to work a certain way then trying to make it happen.

>>105941150
amazing how this is how so many tech people get their start, yet they all produce such trash that solves nothing and creates only more problems

>>105938571 (OP)
wanted to be a cool hacker when i was 16 and installed kali linux
>>105938775
second this

>>105938742
congrats on his transition

I had innate drive for technology

>>105938571 (OP)
games.
my old man was a pretty important person so they let him take me to his office and play games on the computer.

>>105939197
Damn dude, maybe touch some grass once in a while. You want to keep playing on your computer until you're 40?

>>105942284
meant to say 80

>>105938571 (OP)
I just thought it was cool as a kid, and at some point I simply started loving the ability to automate and create the hell of whatever I want on my own.

>>105938681
Wanna become my full time neet?

came here around 2008 because of boredom
i still only have a vague interest of technology and i have very little tech skills
never learn to code, only tried loonix 15 years ago and that's about it
it's just a hobby

Anime and games.

You can download anime for FREE? And you do it through WinMX/Kazaa?

Wait, what the fuck it doesn't work on windows media player. What the fuck is a codec? divx, xvid, avi, mkv, ogm? What the fuck is wrong with ogm, what a nigger format. Looks pretty though.

Oh look, you can get games too? Why the fuck is this keygen playing loud music? I should use a VM for shady shit? You can make a computer in a computer? Wait, my computer specs suck so I need to upgrade RAM/CPU? Man computers at DELL/Gateway are expensive, even for...celeron? Huh, I can build my own computer for much cheaper and I can even find windows keygens?! Well shit, I know what to ask for christmas. What the fuck is this hardware compatibility thing? Time to google.

Unlimited time and free cool shit is a strong motivator as a kid.

uhhhhhhhh watching RWBY

>>105942501
It went to shit after Monty died.

>>105938571 (OP)
Because it has always fascinated me.

>>105942533
i dont know who that is i just play BBTAg

When I saw a TV technician use a portable TV to set up our satellite dish, I realized that color LCDs were the future. This was in the late 1990s

I was like 16 and had no money to buy Dissidia 012. Then I learned about CFW.
After that I moved onto minecraft and skyrim modding, which was actually a pain in the ass back in 2013 (kids these days don't know how easy they got it).

Minecraft mods

panda 2019

I had a computer of my own from being like 8 or so, and i just became more and more tech savvy from there.
because of this i'm a strong proponent of giving a kid a computer young, even if you disconnect it from the internet just get them literate.

this in the early 90's

>>105941633
Pretty much the same. I never did much with kali linux, but I almost turned my whole towns school system into a bitcoin mining rig in 2013.

Long story short, i got raped.

>>105938571 (OP)
I fell for the gayming laptop meme and wanted to upgrade it, so i learned about pc specs and whatnot

My dad was into technology before I was born.

>>105938571 (OP)
Windows 95 PC with a copy of The Ultimate Doom on CD-ROM.

>>105938571 (OP)
i thought hackers in movies were super cool

>>105938571 (OP)
I find out I was a pedophile after watching anime and got into privacy

>>105938571 (OP)
I didn't
I still don't know how to do anything honestly much less what /g/ actually knows. I just learn random shit if I feel like it, like genning porn, LLMs, hacking my psp and vita back in the day, etc.

It's all objectively worthless tech knowledge but I'm here for some reason

>>105938571 (OP)
I stumbled upon /g/ in 2013. Ricing, fucko, and Stallman autism were far more powerful.

>>105944256
>tfw my hairline looks like that but my physique doesn’t
>stuck in brad Pitt from fight club hell

it’s over

>>105938571 (OP)
sex with Bictorica

>>105938571 (OP)
Invel with dysfunctional family. Computers were the only way to pass the time.

>>105942284
>>105942300
It's too late for him anyway

Through gaming with C64 and other ancient computers, which then escalated into full blown tech autism. Later made the grave mistake of turning my hobby into work.

>>105938571 (OP)
I wanted to play tf2 and the old family optiplex wasn't cutting it.

>>105939341
>Eurasian kids masturbating in H1B Disneyland
Kek

>>105938571 (OP)
Game servers when I was 12-13

>>105938571 (OP)
I just used to play shitty games like WoW and not really understand anything tech related. Then I got infected with at least a keylogger (maybe some other shit) and had to recover a bunch of accounts. After that I decided to never let that happen again, so I began learning better security practices. Eventually, I learned to program and got a CS degree.

>>105938571 (OP)
whe I was 7, I was given a Dell Inspiron laptop that had XP on it and just started fucking around with it. Had a cool Metal Gear Solid theme on it.
That and watching my eldest brother put CFW on my PSP 2000. Wanted to know more about it and started researching.

>>105938571 (OP)
Lock yourself in a room with computers parts with the only way to escape is to assemble the PC

i really couldn't say what started it, i've had a fascination of computers for as long as i can remember

>>105946071
"here's a pile of mismatched early '90s parts, a set of dos 6 diskettes and a copy of wolfenstein 3d, you can't leave until you've defeated mecha hitler"

>>105946167
bonus points:
- the motherboards aren't jumpered for the cpus you have
- sound (+ the sound cards are jumpered to non-standard ports/irqs)
- you have no manuals
- some of the parts don't work

>>105939024
fuck off please

>>105944817
you have hair and youre complaining?

>>105938571 (OP)
Flash games on PC during IT classes in primary school

>>105938571 (OP)
>tranime pic
>irrelevant blog post question
>borderline pedophile OP happy of with farming

>tranime pic
>irrelevant blog post question
>borderline pedophile OP happy of xir farming

>>105946223
rude

>>105938571 (OP)
I saw a computer when I was around 4 in 1998 and I've been wanting to do something with them ever since

>see computer
>ooh what's that
>use computer
>you can do cool stuff with it, enjoying and creating music, video, text, games
>you can search for anything
>you can talk with people everywhere about common interests
>it's so insane, how does it work?
>learn how it works
>wait so i can make cool stuff now
>make cool stuff
>oh i can earn money making cool stuff
>make cool stuff for money

Shrimple as.

>>105939024
dont go to link
cp
mooods

>>105938571 (OP)
I wanted to make games.

>>105944854
It's never too late for anyone, anon.