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[x2yzh9]

In today's world, the average person doesn't know how to even ping themselves using a command prompt. Please tell us how you became interested and learned how to use the computer better than a average person.

I guess it just happened a few years ago. My brother spent a lot of his time in his room and I always wondered what he did in there, and one day he let me in and showed me all about computers and how to actually use them correctly. You know, it's ironic, I got in super-deep shit recently and they installed a netnanny program, but I just installed a keylogger and found out the password to the admin account. Not really that hard, looking back on it.

[Heliman]

J/C, a netnanny? What sort of exotic pornography did they catch you looking at?

[ein]

I've sorta always been this way.
As my dad says, I have the intellectual curiousity of his generation coupled with the lifetime of computer usage of my generation.
A few of the keystones were when a friend gifted me a box with MS-DOS installed and Win 3.1 on some floppies, I believe around the time I was 7, when I got an XP box for my tenth birthday, and recently, when my hard drive failed and I had to install Linux.
It's always been sink or swim for me.
In 7th and 8th grades, I had a computer class.
For 8th, I had Japanese, which left me with the high school lunch period.
As a result, I ended up spending most of my lunches up there in that class.
I built around three computers in there, when most people were just learning keyboarding and word processing.

[ToonyMan]

Not really a tech-guru.  I just feel around and expand what I know everyday.  I still screw up things all the time.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah, I know how to access the command prompt, but not really how to use it. No need (yet), really. Becoming a tech-guru seems like a waste of time right now, given that I can currently do everything I desire to do with my computer. Same reason I stick with IE and don't bother with Firefox: There's no need.

But this needs repeating: What the hell did you do to get a netnanny?

[Realmfighter]

Well, one day I watched the movie Hackers, and it changed my life.

I enrolled in joint graphics arts and roller blading courses immediately.

[Retro]

I guess it just happened a few years ago. My brother spent a lot of his time in his room and I always wondered what he did in there, and one day he let me in and showed me all about computers and how to actually use them correctly. You know, it's ironic, I got in super-deep shit recently and they installed a netnanny program, but I just installed a keylogger and found out the password to the admin account. Not really that hard, looking back on it.

1. that's not irony
2. please forgive me if i refuse to believe that a 13 year old became a tech guru "a few years ago"

[Tellemurius]

i got into video games via n64 then computers just kicked me into gear.

[x2yzh9]

I guess it just happened a few years ago. My brother spent a lot of his time in his room and I always wondered what he did in there, and one day he let me in and showed me all about computers and how to actually use them correctly. You know, it's ironic, I got in super-deep shit recently and they installed a netnanny program, but I just installed a keylogger and found out the password to the admin account. Not really that hard, looking back on it.

1. that's not irony
2. please forgive me if i refuse to believe that a 13 year old became a tech guru "a few years ago"

What the fuck? I mean, unless you take everything exactly literally it was meant to say that I'm better than most everyday people with the technical aspects of computers.

Yeah, I know how to access the command prompt, but not really how to use it. No need (yet), really. Becoming a tech-guru seems like a waste of time right now, given that I can currently do everything I desire to do with my computer. Same reason I stick with IE and don't bother with Firefox: There's no need.

But this needs repeating: What the hell did you do to get a netnanny?

Uh, well, the whole Salvia thing was unauthorized by my parents, so yeah. Regardless, I still approve of Salvia and as soon as I turn 16 I'm going to exercise my freedom to do what I want with myself.
edit; To provide more clarity, I had to get one of my friends to upload it to mediafire as they had chat sites blocked on netnanny, and the keylogger download site was listed as a chat site.

[Tellemurius]

lol you're banned from listening to Saliva? to screw with them, play some Rage against the Machine and see their faces. my father used Netnanny on our home computer but me and my bro figured out how to circumvent it. i used linux and he used a proxy.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Bloodsheder, he...isn't talking about a musical group. Think chemicals.

[x2yzh9]

But regardless, this is a thread about nerds! Cmon, spread it around!

[Duelmaster409]

I'm not exactly a computer guru, but back in Sophomore year I actually managed to fix a few "out of service" computers in the computer lab. The laughable thing is the school's "IT Manager / Computer Director / Lazy bozo" was just some random guy who knew jack shit about computers and just listened to rap and flirted with students and talked about basketball all day.

But I got most of my computer-knowledge from my brothers and my father, who are all computer nerds. I had a limitless supply of computers to toy with and built my fair share back in the day. I performed my first $ sudo su at age 10. 

[SolarShado]

I've always been interested in how stuff works, and when we got our first computer it was no exception... I ended up reading almost every computer book at the local library, several more than once... "X for Dummies" are some good books

Then I grabbed Linux for Dummies, finally got my hands a computer no-one else was using... Best thing ever: plain-text config files, loads of included documentation... with time and curiosity (which I had plenty of) you can learn a lot about how it works just by looking...

I don't have as much free time as I did then, but I still enjoy tinkering

fakeEDIT: ninja'd

I performed my first $ sudo su at age 10. 

lol XD
whose computer were you on? did you usually have admin access?

[ToonyMan]

Oh if we're speaking about parents and their "lock down" on privileges I never had any problems with that my whole childhood.  My parents aren't very computer savvy people and frankly they don't care, I'm sure they know how the internet works and everything by now, but they don't mind at all what I do on the computer.  In fact it's pretty hard for them to do anything right now when I'm miles away from home.