What Inspired You?

[pedobear]

Children under the age of 17

[blazed]

Hehe

Not really tho. I was definitely worse than my teachers in MANY things (reading, talking etc.)  But I could still fix things they couldn't on the computer due to what I learned at home. And sure I had no fucking clue on what I was doing. I mean I was 2 years old and I could not even spell my own name. But clicking the "Next" and "Yes I agree to the terms of usage" buttons is not so hard to do. As a 2 year old I just saw it as the same things dad did on the computer at home when he installed programs. The situation I'm talking about at the moment was when the teachers were gonna install a new game on the computer at the kindergarden, but they didn't succed. I asked them politely if I could try and I installed it succesfully. Now I did phrase myself wrong when I said I was better than them at computers, but I di have certain skills that made me perform and complete certain tasks that they could not do, and in my opinion that they should have completed quite easily due to their knowledge in comparison to my knowledge at that age.

[saucey]

My uncle has always worked with electronics, earliest memory I have of him is fixing up a radio. I always looked up to him and grew up wanting to get into electronics, when I was 12 I built a Linux server, then at 14 I hacked a cable modem, but I had to start working so I left it all behind until recently again I found myself reading book after book on exploits and next thing you know I'm downloading a book on reverse engineering and another one on Malware Analysis and taking on a Cryptology Class online. I can go a full day just trying to understand why and how code affects a machine the way it does

[C0die]

I am curious about Computers and technology since i got my first Computer at the age of 10. I really fascinated me how Computers work and now i am looking forward to sudy Computer Science.

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[NLited]

I was always in front of the pc cause when I was young I hadn't much friends and I got bullied at school. Later on it was more like learning new things rather than playing video games. I was much interested in how things work and what I could do in a more deeper way. And so on. I'm still the tech-guy in my class. I mean in my highschool.

[may1]

Was given a commodore 64 for christmas aged 8 - i spent most of that year learning BASIC rather than playing the bundled games ! From there progressed onto Atari ST, and finally a big PC - never looked back!

[Matangub]

I was inspired from all the hacking movies i saw during all those years.

[Dameon]

I also started taking things apart and putting them back together again. My father is a mechanic and also knew how to put cable boxes together so I had access to a lot of tools. I also went to a day camp where we learned how to solder and also about computers. Later on in high school me and one of my brothers would stay in the computer lab and just mess around with HTML. I also do love puzzles as my favorite game is ocarina of time.

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[Biohazard]

Was given a commodore 64 for christmas aged 8 - i spent most of that year learning BASIC rather than playing the bundled games ! From there progressed onto Atari ST, and finally a big PC - never looked back!

Good to know I am not the only old fart on here, nothing like typing hundreds of lines of code to recreate Pong on a 5.25" floppy.

I think my interest began with the original War games and continued from there.  I have always enjoyed taking things apart and learning how they worked, which seems to be a common symptom amongst several others here.

[Jack7T]

For me it was when I first got my first computer at a young age. Bday present from my parents. They figured a computer would be a good way to feed my extreme curiosity in all things. This was early/mid nineties

Manually trying to open every single file inside it to see what's in it. Sometimes editing files to see what would happen and then figuring out why it would happen. Fucking up the OS more than once obviously.. This was way before there were proper search engines Went to the local (nearest) library to rent some books about computers / operating systems. The entire library had like a single shelf with some old computer related books, most of them written in English. From here I 'borrowed' an 'Encarta' encyclopedia on CD to read and explore. Also, the OS on my computer was configured in English so I had to get myself an English to <native language> dictionary and tried to decipher all the words that were used.

So yeah, I'd say my parents gave my first inspiration.
After a while I found out my neighbor was quite handy with computers, he introduced me to batch file scripting in Windows. Awesome