it'll never catch on

[IDB1]

Which reminds me. . . lad I used to work with left school with nowt.
Bought some books on IT stuff, self-taught, scored himself a bottom of the pile IT job and, last time I saw him (9 years ago) he was a well-respected IBM mainframe systems analyst.

Me.. I was great at school and have underachieved almost every day since.

 

[Neil]

Left secondary school in 86, used computers then, and at sixth form, about as advanced as it got for us, then, was an acoustic coupler, 300 baud modem, and prestel.

Started working in the IT industry in around 90. Started regularly using the internet around 94.

 

[zigzag]

1982 - Lunar Lander, friend's ZX-81. And so I started on the slippery slope... Got a ZX Spectrum for Christmas that year. Still got my Z80 assembler books

1987 - 2nd year computer science Paisley Tech. Discovered newsgroups while fannying about on the college unix mainframe which was getting its news feed from the JANET network (I think). That was about as close to the internet as I would come until the early 90s when I started working.

 

[crud]

i remember my 'IT' teacher coming to get me from french because i changed all the font sizes on his computers to an unreadabile size and niether him or any of his next class knew how to change it back........................! (96-97)

 

[orange71]

I was lucky enough to have a French tutor (of all things) at University who introduced us to email and bulletin boards and ICQ type messaging in 1990. He would let us type up our work and saubmit online to his account. Seem to remember it was all Unix based. I remember 'chatting' to somebody in the USA online and thinking 'wow' this is incredible.

 

[cyfa2809]

So how are you with tech now?

pretty good, hammers seem to keep most things quiet '