How old were you when you learned how to use the computer?

I was 25 or 26.

I was in 7th grade when I first saw a computer. That is when we got them in our school. Have worked on them ever since. That was more years ago than I care to count!

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And I'm happy for it.

4 or 5. My father worked for PC Connection when I was growing up and I was exposed to the first "real" personal computers at an early age!

I think I was 17 when I first used a computer -- the school had a Tandy and an Apple II (this was circa 1980), and we all got to use it to see what it was like.

I got my own Commodore 64 a couple of years later. Then in 1985 I started using Microtek VDTs for work. Five years later I was on an Apple Macintosh. During the 1990s I learned my way around PCs.

Been a wild and crazy quarter of a century!

I was a little less than 3 years old when I started using a computer. My dad had an Apple that he let me use. He programmed a few games and stories in that I could access by typing "Catalog" then typing in the name of the program I wanted. I used to love that! He would put funny stories in (I think he called the program Trillion Stories) and I could read them. He wrote so many I don't think I ever read them all. I never got repeats. He would write funny (silly, ridiculous) stories about me and my friends and my family going on crazy adventures... I had such a great time!

i was about 14 at school

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i was 7 years old .. playing super mario and golf at my grandfathers house

i learned to use the computer when i was around the age of 4,5, or 6. can't quite remember!

I was ten years old.

It was 1967, and my father had just got a job as Associate Director of the University of Waterloo Computer Centre. I found it fasinating that you could do all sorts of neat math-type stuff with computers.

I think the first computer was an IBM 1750 (or something like that), it had about 4K of memory, used punch cards for data entry and squential tape drives for short term storage.

I learned Tutor, Fortran, APL and a smattering of Cobol and used to hang out with the Undergrads. It was an exciting time for me. I used to hurry there after school, sit down at the punch card machine and pump out programs until my Dad left for supper. Sometimes I'd even go back to the Centre with him after we ate.

I used his account # to put my programs into the queue. You'd drop off the programs and they would be entered by Post-grads (this was while the U of W was transiting to the IBM 360 computer and there was limited access) and then you'd come back a couple of days later and your cards would be there with a print-out wrapped around them. Then you'd take the print-out and pour through it to see if your program worked. It usually didn't the first few times and the more lines of code... the more chances of a mistake.

My Dad was very busy with a new language called WATFIV (WATerloo Fortran IV) and so he was there quite a bit and so I got quite good at programming.

I currently own a wrist-watch that has more memory and a faster processor than that old IBM did.

As time went by I took programming in high school (the first class of its kind in town) and eventually became an electronics technician.

Over the years I've owned many home computers starting with a TI-99/4A and I've managed to keep every one of them except that old TI. Every so often I'll take out the old Apple II (second computer) and try it out. It still works, but the discs are getting harder and harder to read.

Hope you enjoyed my stroll down memory lane.

Very young, been using computers my entire life.. even back when I didn't even understand the slightest about them. xD

I was about 6 I think. Been a nut ever since.

When I was 5 years old. I was taught over 12 diffrent languages when I was 2. I had computers when I was in kindergarden and at my house I had 4 computers 3 where mine little laptop and a typewriter I learned at the age of 6 to type over 60 wpm fast without looking it was fun to me and I had a learning trivia computer thing.

I started somewhere between 5 and 7 but I didn't really get into it until I was 9. Those where the days. A lightning fast 386DX33, 50 Megs of hard drive space, a 2400 baud modem, and DOS prompt as fas as the eye could see. I eventually got Windows 3.1.

i was 8 when i would play around on the old old old pc...ok so it was windows 95 but still...then in school when i was 11 we were learning how to formaly use them

I was 21. Way before Windows!

5 years

used one for the first time when I was 7 or so, but I think it wasn't until when I was about 9-10 that I learned how to actually navigate one and solve problems without clear guide lines (such as error messages when installing an application - learning to react to the message instead of just panicking)

I was 4.

i was about 9 when we got our first computer back in 82 now i'm 32 and learning to be a computer programmer/ website designer

i was in the 4th grade

I saw a computer in my sister's friend home when I was 4 years old. I was in elementary school about 3 to 4 years. My mom bought me a computer on my birthday. I don't even know how to laugh. I was learned how to use compuer by myself by trying everhing. I fomatted the game disk when I got a computer on the first few days. WhenI was 12... I've got a hobby in programming. My first programming language was visual basic. My personal programming language was qbasic. I learned from looking at someone's source codes. My mom have me a tutor teaching me how to programming, and other tutor teach me how too make 3d animations, and modeling in 3d studio at age 13. I also learned parts frpm cpmputer books. I learned turing, c++ from high school.

not till I was 45, and now I 50 and I built them and I'm haveing a ball doing it.
I also still go to school 2days a week learning more about them, kinda am the teacher aide.
Keep thinking I'll stop school but its just to much fun!

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I remember using computers in Grade 5 but not until Grade 6 did we use the Apple IIGS with 51/4 disks. I guess by then we had moved away from tape cassette storage and hard disk platters that were 20 inch in diameter. It's kinda ironic to think that my college professor mentioned making a computer with an array of 5 1/4 disks so he could charge his friends to access their old data. Why would anyone want their old data? But you make money....

Right from the Commodores all the way to the RAMAC and the personal computer...are millenium will never see the likes of basics to complex in such short time.

I can see hardrives and CPU's packing the bits, in line with Morre's Law but how will the computer system change? Holographic, Optical, built into our finger and projected onto a mini-rollup screen courtesy of nanotechnology....

Phew...all this back and fast-forwarding to the future is making me tired. I can hardly keep up with the essential discoveries and advancements in the IT industry....
It feels like I'm in overdrive all the time

This is a good question ummmmm. I wish I never met the computer or internet cuz now im addicted! I have had computer classes in highschool to learn how to type fast and make paragraphs and how to use spreadsheet. I hated that class and didn't care much for it. I wasn't introduced to internet just yet. By the end of grade 12 summer time, I saw my sister on the computer on excite.com she was chatting and I thought it was cool that you can interact with the world in this box. She was also playing pool on Yahoo and it looked so much fun that I made a yahoo account just to play pool. So that was in 2001-2002. So I have been using internet for 7 years and its great. Thanks Bill Gates!

17, the year was 1977.

I started using computers around the age of 15, while I was still in high school.

That probably doesn't excite anyone these days, but I don't recall many students using computers circa 1970. We had access to an IBM System/360 or System/370 and used a teletype printer connected through an acoustic coupler. Look, ma, no punchcards!

The first programming language I learned was APL - A Programming Language - which was a very elegant and powerful mathematical language.

Iwas 50 years old when i first learned to use the computor.

I was about 11 when I started messing with computers ever since then I love to work on them and do all kinds of stuff on here, I don't know as much as I'd like to but I have fun with it!

I was 20 and a student at Virginia Tech, typing cards for the main frame and desperately trying to get a simple program to run. That was it until I was about 30. I am now 52.

38, just five yrs ago. I have learnt MS word, excel, access, AutoCAD, ppt, and wrote technical/functional specs for many database software. All this in last 5 yrs.

I've been playing around on computer games since I was like 4 or 5. But, I started learning more and more when I was 12.

Now, at 14, I know a fair amount (not a lot, and I'm not really a wiz) and I know some HTML, etc.

Thoughly learned? <3 years ago.

I was I believe 28. (I'm an old guy).

I was probably 5 years old, i'm actually a lot more than a computer freak, im probably like a computer ballistic maniac.

I was about 16 or 17. But that was 1973 and computers were pretty rare then........

i am 55

I started to use computer on January 9, 1975 when I was 20 years 8 months old exactly.

When i was 19 then i came in touchw ith computer and when i was 23 i completed my degree and started Teachng compuers

six years ago when i was fifty

Seven. And the computer was a brand new Apple ][.

Early 80's I played games on my Dads Commadore.. those were the days!

Age 4 or 5 I really can't be exact. When I was at that age my dad would play with me games like Lotus and such (good old classics)...

13 years.. :(

i was in 1st grade, but i grew up right when they became public normality. we used them for games and stuff and we had typing classes.

can you believe that i was 29? well i was, and that was 3 years ago. the need just never seemed to arise before that. my aunt is 62 and she has just learned to go on-line. she has bought a small laptop and she loves it.

Havent learnt it yet...I dont knw how did u guys manage to learn
A lifetime with this thing is not enough.
Untill n unless u have special powers;