Do you remember what was the first thing you did with a computer?

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[FunkyMonkee]

Well, back in the `70's, we got a computer in school that was like an electric typewriter but it could also record everything you wrote onto a strip of yellow paper tape so, I wrote a few things on the take including the alphabet so I could learn what each set of holes translated to.
15 years later in college, I was given a tutor in my English class that taught me how to use a computer that used 5" floppy discs and, the first thing I did with it was to write my next English paper with it. Once I got the hang of it a week or two later and didn't need the tutor anymore, I decided to start cataloging my albums on it and would take at least 25 to 50 albums to school with me a few times a week and spend a couple hours cataloging them to my personal floppies!
About 5 years later, I got a laptop that used 3" floppies and finished up my albums on that and started my singles and my 78's!
About 5 years later, I got a brand new full computer set that had a nice big hard drive, at least 20 GB!! And I started doing all kinds of stuff with it!!

[NamerOfStars]

No, but I do know: when my brother got a copy of Ultima VII, he was so amazed by what he was seeing that he had to show SOMEBODY; dad was at work, mom was busy, and our sister was sleeping, so he took four-month-old me out of my cradle, sat me down in his lap, and had me watch as he played. I'm told it was adorable.

[jennifer_bloom]

I was five and I had a digital art creation app for kids on the computer so I watched it.

[Potteplante]

Had a computer class where I learned touch typing - then there was minesweeper.

[Likes2drive]

I think I used it as a big calculator but this was way back when it was just DOS

[exitseven]

I took a Fortran course in college. I absolutely hated it. The professor was a jerk and i just could not wrap my mind arount writing a program from scratch. I barely passed the course and hoped that i would never have to deal with another computer again as long as i lived.

Fast forward 15 years and i end up getting a Masters Degree in computer science and start a career in IT. Eventually i started teaching it at a local college. Go figure,

[BCRanger10]

My dad let me play with Microsoft Word on his computer. I was maybe 5 or 6 years old.

[horatiohornblower]

Probably died of dysentery playing Oregon Trail.

Although, I imagine that the first thing I did with a computer was press the power button.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I would use the Yahoo and AOL Chat Boards until they took them down.

[DryGermanGuy]

Commodore C-64 in the early eighties... we played games of course! Epyx Winter Games and Summer Games among the first. Good times.

[abc3643]

Sat in front of it at the Polytechnic Institute of New York circa 1975. No monitors then; just tractor feed printers.

[genericname85]

typing shit in ms dos as a kid, not understanding what i was doing at all, cause i just got on my fathers computer when he went to the toilet xD

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I remember when I was little, I'd ask to play Pajama Sam on our computer.

[kellytheman]

I probably played a video game or type a paper for school. When I was in grade school they just got a whole bunch of computer's to help with mathematics and spelling.

[Nikki1989]

I joined a music message board. There wasn't many of them around in those days, but I found one.

[najekim]

Got on the Internet with a 14.4k dial-up modem and searched for IRC & USENET groups to join. Then found a couple BBS's to join.

[Iron_Man]

Web tv I was using my former girlfriends when she brought it down

[Adventurer23]

I powered it on.

[zagor]

I think I played a game.

[Ms_Facesitter]

Games!

[Fuentes]

Play games