age?

[swadowalker]

At what age do you guys start showing an interest for computers, programming and hacking?
and how many hours do you spend every day in order to learn new things? im assuming that when you first started you worked all the time to obtain the knowledge and skills that you have right now.

[Kulverstukas]

It's been discussed before somewhere. But basically there is no age limit, there is no number of hours, there is only morbid curiosity that drives you to push on, that itch you can't scratch until you figure it out and you stay on the subject or stay up as much as you have to until that aha moment comes.
But this is going to turn into another "what is hacking" thread, so I'll just drop a few that were discussed before:

https://evilzone.org/tutorials/what-is-hacking-9398/
https://evilzone.org/general-discussion/exactly-what-is-hacking/
https://evilzone.org/hacking-and-security/where-to-start-with-hacking/
https://evilzone.org/tutorials/getting-into-the-hacker-mindset/
https://evilzone.org/tutorials/intro-to-the-hacker-methodology/
https://evilzone.org/hacking-and-security/what-is-a-hacker-%28debate%29/

Seriously dude, just search...

[Duko]

Why not create a poll for that question?
 If a lot of people answer this question with a post, it's gonna get pretty spammy

[swadowalker]

i didnt ask you what is hacking or anything like that.i have already see the posts that you are talking about.i just want to see at what age some members of the community start being interested for computers and how many hours they have spend in their try to become better nothing more.

[white-knight]

At what age do you guys start showing an interest for computers, programming and hacking?
and how many hours do you spend every day in order to learn new things? im assuming that when you first started you worked all the time to obtain the knowledge and skills that you have right now.

I started showing interest in Hacking when i was around 15 (in the  90s ) but do to some obstacles i wasnt able to get into it..

I started to tinker around with it again maybe 2 years ago. I spend about 4 -6 hours a night trying to learn anything i can by doing courses or VMs and so on. Unfortunately work interferes with my hobby.. fml right

 I wish i could have stuck with it since the 90s, maybe i wouldn't be such a n00b ass bitch.
 But anyways hope that helps answer your question.   

[swadowalker]

thank you.Your answer is exactly what i wanted to see. And im sure that in a couple of months you will see results.if there's a passion there will be results

[HTH]

Started being interested at the age of 13 or so.

Havent really stopped, but slowed down a lot and went not-public with it during highschool.
*Due to enjoying being 'normal'*

At my peak and thus when I learned the most, I was reading/coding for 16 hours a day every day.

[Darkvision]

Started being interested at the age of 13 or so.

Havent really stopped, but slowed down a lot and went not-public with it during highschool.
*Due to enjoying being 'normal'*

At my peak and thus when I learned the most, I was reading/coding for 16 hours a day every day.

in what world are you normal? i mean ffs you are canadian!

Anyway i started at 13 as well. As far as time spent its kind of miss leading. By that i mean everyone learns at their own pace, what you might get in 20 hours might take me 30, or 12. To give a corollary in a different way. Its said that it takes 10,000 hours to "master" something. yet at the age of 15 with ~ 1000 hours in game(Team Fortress Classic) i was not only on the #1 ranked tournament team in the game, i was by far the best over all player on the team. Many of my teammates had more hours in game, or certainly equal hours. How much they did or didnt play however is unimportant, because you can not judge skill or ability based off of how many hours you have done something.

edit: huh that was strange. somehow it only got the first line. anywho...

[cyberkitty]

At what age do you guys start showing an interest for computers, programming and hacking?
and how many hours do you spend every day in order to learn new things? im assuming that when you first started you worked all the time to obtain the knowledge and skills that you have right now.

in HS I became interested in learning to build wesites & learned HTML and hacking especially after watching Hackers lol but i havent really learned anything new since...

[iTpHo3NiX]

Started fucking with a win95 laptop at like age 5-6 and have been hooked ever since. I've spent years behind and tinkering with computers. My thirst for knowledge and data packratting has never stopped.

[0E 800]

Guess it started during 2nd grade (6yo), got to play 'Number Munchers' on a commodore:


In junior highschool (6th grade) I would stay in the computer room and play simant on the old macs, and learn autodesk 3dstudio r2 on the 386's running dos/win3.1

In highschool I was given my first computer, a 286 with a amber monochrome monitor. I used it to run through every command in the dos manual. I guess I could have used that time to learn basic, but didnt. In highschool I watched the movie 'hackers' and the day after was putting keyloggers in the autoexec.bat of every computer the teachers gave me access too. Back when there was a plethora of dos utilities you could use to crack banyan/vines and novel networks - which was pretty much all the schools ran on back then.

I ended up getting caught by a newb mistake; not reading the optional flags to disable the splash screen when autoexec.bat called the keylogger. I was labeled a cyber-terrorist by the Nadmin and was not able to use any computers from then on at school.

Now that I work full-time in IT, I am able to spend downtime researching and testing vulnerabilities, anything to keep me updated on what going on on the web.

[swadowalker]

everyone started being obsessed with hacking after they saw the movie hackers? lol. I will download this movie tonight

[shome]

I remember being 12 years old, and my math teacher showing us 'Wargames' in class, and I can say since that day it changed everything for me. Shortly after that, I started following pioneers in the hacker community, such as ESR, RMS, etc. I read the 'How to be a Hacker' by Eric Raymond, and have pretty much held myself to those standards since, after a couple pain-staking years as a skiddie, punting friends off AOL, and all that fun stuff. I call it 'growing pains', looking back now.

. I'm 27 now, finally working full time in IT. Had a couple personal setbacks where I didn't stay current on things for awhile, but my drive is always to learn more than I knew the previous day. I enjoy the community, and where the digital age is going. I've seen age compromises in both directions as to where people gain an interest for something and move forward with it. I don't sit and code / learn for hours upon hours a day, nor do I think that would be too healthy for me. Working full time in IT allows me to appreciate my off time to learn extra-curricular stuff. Finishing up my B.S. in Cyber Security and hoping to move forward in the Security field within the next couple years. It's a marathon, not a sprint for me.