What was your first exposure to computing?

For Anders Hejlsberg, it was finding that rare thing in the 70's: A high school that offered access to computers.

@github An 8086, that would overclock to 10Mhz. It had 2 5 1/4” floppy drives. Nice CRT monitor. Real keyboard. Ran MS-DOS perfectly in 1989. 640KB ought to be enough for everyone.

@github i remember playing tetris on my mom's old computer like it was a sport lol

@github WordPress

@github scripting video games :) !

@github playing starcraft 1 on a box monitor.

@github Microsoft Paints😭😂 It gives me Nostalgia till now

1987. Kindergarten. D.S. Johnson Elementary. ​Sitting in front of a giant beige Apple IIe playing Oregon Trail. ​To go from watching a blinking green cursor to conversing with reasoning models like Gemini... the hardware shrank, but the magic of 'Input > Output' never got old. 💾➡️🧠

@github HTML on Notepad. The moment I realized I could type text into a file and the browser would render it as a live page, I was hooked. It felt like holding the keys to the internet. 💻📉

@github 2008

@github computing peaked at windows 7. every os update since then has just been ads and bloatware.

@github A dusty old PC, slow internet and trying to change website colors with HTML. that tiny win hooked me for life.

@github Win 98, playing games

@github Rate my project: > Unofficial Facebook API to automate Facebook personal account github.com/togashigreat/f…

@github Got my first personal computer when I was 4.

@github I got into computing when I first wrote my own code. Seeing it work was amazing

@github First day of computer class in 3rd standard — sitting way at the back, just staring at the screen in awe 😄

@github 😅

@github paintsssss

@github MS Paint

In 2007 I was 5 sitting on the floor opening a beige desktop like it was a toy probably a pentium 4 machine with a nasty heatsink and loud fan, RAM sticks (those long green boards with black chips), wide grey ribbon cables a hot heavy metal hard drive and a noisy fan surrounded with colored wires everywhere, windows xp and a thick monitor with static at the back had no clue what any part did just knew the inside of a computer felt more interesting than nfs most wanted.

@github Learning how to use Abacus.

@github At a friend’s house I tried his dad’s PC, there was a NES emulator. Playing Mario Bros on something other than a NES was crazy.I asked my dad how it was possible. He said, “You can instruct computers to do it.” 🤯 that was my introduction to the idea of computers and programming.

@github That came with a sudden desire to build social media platforms to connect like minded people like me.

@github corel draw

@github C++

@github AOL dial up

@github Using Microsoft word ❤️😂

@github Aug 2025 I started a small experiment, it was first time I heard about GitHub :)

@github "Hello World" in C/C++.

@github Using punch cards.

@github Setting dip switches on an XT motherboard and listening to beep codes on boot.

@github Valiant Turtle - BBC Micro! - Had to queue for a chance.

@github Sinclair 1000