
Doing some spring cleaning and found a picture of when I got my first very own computer. We always had PCs in the house but got a box of parts for Christmas that I had to put together myself.
I was already a bit nerdy, but this cemented it for me. Made a career out of it!

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Ah good stuff!
I dont have a photo if my first PC build, but if there was one it would have been extremely similar!
The first one i helped build was a 486 DX 66mhz, was my dads, i think my first personal machine was a AMD K6.
So many jumpers and ugly flat cables, if you dont get your hardware and software right you can expect to wait a week for new stuff to show up to troubleshoot etc
Fond memories, I also made my way into computing work! Hang in there fellow nerd, we will inherit the earth one day, *as it was written*
https://preview.redd.it/9cuofql4a20d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=242852905371c16e07876f6e7ad107570aeeef19
Hmm…you would have been playing things like Civ, Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, Warcraft Orcs vs Humans, maaaaybe Diablo and Duke Nukem 3d.
Source: I’m 40.
A smile of pure joy
100% Bliss
Everyone is happy when they get their first computer. But your face express that feeling the best!