It has been awhile hasn't it? Been really busy, will try to stop by more often :rolleyes:

I'd say when I was in 4th grade. I was always on AOL and got into the "progs" scene..heh. Then where it really kicked off was a couple years later my brother bought me HTML 4 Dummies book and I started by making BMX websites and then everything took off from there and I haven't been offline since. :)

i used to hang out on BBS's when i was in 5th grade if anyone is old-school enough to know what i'm talking about you're 1337 ;D heheh i hung out on all kinds of local boards.. anyway about a year later messing with that, i became interested in the public libraries' local directory system and through that they gave free internet access...it was limited because when you dialed in you could pretty much only use terminal sessions..and it was all commandline driven.. and so i got crazy with telnet, learned basic commands and whatnot, and then i started messing with basic unix stuff through that. I played a few MUDs but they're pretty boring.. uhm in middle school i got into more of the hardware side of things. i worked in the library fixing the computers and making cables. i gained a very loose comprehension of networking here. since then i went through high school and took cisco classes for 2 years. i have competed in national computer competitions and score reasonably high. i got 16th in the microsoft network administration, and 5th in the network design team nationally. and state wide i got first in computer network technologies, first in network design team, third in information systems, second in cisco network administration, and second in pc servicing and troubleshooting. i'm not really the best at anything..i'm just a farily broad based kinda kid.. i suck ass at math so a lot of you guys have a much better understanding of that. i don't consider myself very intelligent, i just have a reeeeaallly obsessive passion for computers.


for anyone who read through my lifes history, props to you!.. lol

I'm going to show my age now. I got started in about 1982 when the ZX Spectrum was first launched. Games were plentiful and cheap. It came with an excellent manual that taught you programming. The magazine shelves were jammed with magazines offering program listings that you type in and learn from. Ah, the nostalgia...

Nick

How it all started
 

It all started when I got arrested at a young age for something stupid. Bare with me :mercy:, I got sent to bootcamp for about six months. I didn't know what I wanted to do in life, so I just took classes that were offered at camp. There was a computer class that taught A+ cert. and I was not even in it because I thought it was hard and a waste of time. Eventually, I was forced to take that class because it was the only class available at my age level. I attended the class and soon after I was introduced to Cisco. I loved it :love:! I got my A+, CCNA, and half of my CCNP certifications. Now, I am attending college and majoring in computer science. I am also planning to finish CCNP and get my CCIE as well.

I got into computers in the 8th grade when I hacked the computer lab at my middle school because the teacher was quite dense and I had to teach her how to use the computer when I had no prior experience...

Mine is short and simple.... the madness all started when I was given a Commodore 64 for Christmas when I was 8. No one had computers back then! The madness seemed to compound itself when I picked up a 300bps modem w/450bps turbo mode!

when my friend showed me what "DOOM" was at his dads office. Of course back then we werent allowed to play so hed exit the game whenever he came in the room. It scared the hell out of me when i was a kid though!