what was your earliest computer memory??

This one

Playing Tomb Raider on PC while hearing my Dad say "Lara Croft is so hot"

He was correct

My dad always had atari, but for a computer he brought home a commodore 64 but I wasn't allowed to touch it unless he was home. lol

For my own, I remember sitting in my kitchen in my tiny apartment and I don't know why I was in there but I remember sitting on the counter trolling AOL chatrooms. Got punted many times. That's the first time I ever saw my first gore site when someone posted rotten.com in chat.

My ex-hubby bought a compaq when we were dating. He lived in a tiny bedroom at his mom's so we played doom together. He would fire at monsters and run the character and I would hit the space bar to jump. This was so we could play games together. lol

this gay little 1993 mickey mouse game where u had to get everything ready for a birthday party

I used to love playing SimCity 2000.

Except I thought the point of the game was to take out as many loans as you possibly could and build as large a city as you could before the interest payments ate you up and you lost lmao

I used to go to my friend's house across the road and play Zool on his Amiga 500.

Zool was cooler than an Italian plumber or a blue hedgehog shame it didn't work out.

Playing Number Munchers on an Apple II my dad picked up cheap in the late 80s

Playing Flight Sim 95 with my dad

Assembling an AMD machine when they were making Athlons, and their chips were as good a value as they are now

Croc 1 and 2, Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone.

in the very early 90s we got to make stuff on a computer and print it out. my dad had cancer at the time so i made him a get well card. the art i used? a skull.

i don't remember what year it was exactly. probably 91? i was in 1st grade if i have the year right.

my next memory is the late 90s and trying to work out how the frick to play games on a crappy old dos computer i was given. i used to play wheel of fortune and jeopardy on it all the time.

Playing Voodoo Castle, etc on my Mother's Commodore Vic 20. I got a lot of my reading skills from those text adventure games. Didn't really have much of a clue what I was doing back then but it was still fun.

My own first computer was a 286 I used to play Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, and Civ 1.

The earliest games I remember playing are Age of Empires and Delta Force. I don't recall if we had a desktop PC at home at that point, but my father had a Toshiba laptop (with pointer nub!) from work that I definitely used. As I got older I played a lot of Command & Conquer and a foid friend pirated all the expansion packs of The Sims for me. My first console was the PlayStation, I think when it was about 6 years after release and more reasonably priced.

You were only allowed to use the Internet for 15 minutes at a time, or else it got too expensive. But it was worth it for going to GameFAQs and printing out the useful sections of a guide you needed.

I used Windows 95 through 7. The first Linux I used was Puppy Linux to put on a flash drive and mess with school computers. The more I wanted out of Windows the more it fought back, and it was never very user-friendly with installing software I needed. Installing Windows 7 on a machine that came with 8 was such a hassle I abjured Windows forever.

Playing the shitty toy story game

Power Pete bb

I also remember sitting on my dads lap when I was baby and would watch whatever..

When I was four-five I very much remember sitting with him and watching him play a flight sim called Su-27 flanker

This is how the game played

but yeah my dad was all about simulations/realism and got me SimAnt and that was my first game and got me obsessed with ants

Then he got me SimCity.

It will be a bit later on my uncle introduced me to DooM and would play it on the family computer but it was scary to me

Big butt floppy discs (which were floppy and it made me mad that the new smaller floppy disks were hard)

I played some cartoon fish game that I think was like a scavenger hunt

Commander Keen or this shovelware/shareware platformer game where you played as a rabbit collecting gems underground and could dig and drop boulders... Don't remember the name of if. Oh and that skiing game where you can get eaten by a terrifying yeti

I was trying to play either KidPix or Mixed Up Mother Goose on DOS when I was about 3 and couldn't get it to work. Sperged out at my mom and made her call my dad at work. I had figured out how to type kidpix.exe but didn't know you were supposed to hit Enter

My shit

my dad claims that i would sit on his lap when i was a couple months old and mash on the keyboard while he was trying to get work done

Yeah, my little guy liked to do the same.

(If you're my son, get the heck off this webzone.)

the windowless concrete computer lab room full of LCⅡs LocalTalk-networked to the teacher's Quadra 900

My first computer I remember was the family Vista desktop which became very slow and virus (?) ridden so my dad bought a Macbook Air to replace it due to all the markeing over Mac's getting no viruses. Macbook Air's were pretty shitty but I played Minecraft, Dwarf Frotress, and openemu alot on it. The hard drive quickly filled with roms I downloaded, but when my mom saw the harddrive was full she blamed apple. I also once downloaded a piece of adware called mackeeper on it because it was ad ware in adobe flash (people forget how even software from established companies would include shady if not outright malicious software in the installer as ad ware).

I tried to find the old intel air so I could shove Linux on it and give it away but it seems lost now

played so much of this with my dad

Pretty sure getting a gameboy with space invaders which i thought was s terrible game for its time since super mario was better. I do remember playing maelstrom (an asteroids knock off) on a mac around the early 90s.

maze screensaver, microsoft bob, gizmos and gadgets, reader rabbit, doom, and the bouncing cards in solitaire.

i have a vivid memory of playing commander keen at a family friends house on their kitchen computer while their non verbal neurodivergent child was yelling in the background watching sesame street and repeatedly bridge shuffling a deck of cards.

It's so cute you think this stuff is nostalgia.

I grew up with a Commodore 64.

Hit computer with rock. Computer know Grug boss

Probably putting magnets on a monitor in school and watching the screen turn purple

>i actually didnt game on this laptop too much. it was too slow to run anything good

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though I also played Cro-Mag Ralley on an iMac as a kid, fricking with the settings and making my little brother try and play it was hilarious

There are only two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses

Probably "Writing to Read" on the IBM PC

They put kindergartners on the computer to do gamified worksheets and type up stories. It probably was more of a way to shill IBM PCs than an educational revolution but it was fun and it at least used phonics so I came out literate