I remember back before I got my own PC. My brother had Windows 98, installed Morpheus (similar to Kazaa).
I looked for a game, I think it was some console game. “Wow, I didn’t even know this was on PC! Wow, it’s only 15MB, how did they get the game so small?? Computers are cool!”
Every time I ran it, the screen would go all funky with every click and after a while return to normal.On a separate occasion I deleted System32 files (whichever ones it let me at the time), to free up space.
It’s quite funny that a lot of people ask me for various advice, fixing devices, PCs, etc. just a friendly reminder to myself that everyone starts somewhere. Boy I messed up so many PCs when I was much younger.
Lots of engineers probably got their start by taking random things apart and breaking them as a kid too. Clocks, radios, etc.
I got into computers when I destroyed a Windows 3.11 install on a PC we’d been given.
Nobody wanted to use it without graphics. So I started playing with it and typing words into the MS DOS prompt and reading the output.
I found qbasic and the gorilla and snake games. Then a text editor and so I learned how to make batch files. Learned how to edit basic by trial and error so I could make the gorilla’s bananas blow up the whole screen
Found some DOS games, like scorched earth and a copy of wing commander which led to me learning to hate DRM and also how to operate an unguarded photocopier at my school.
Fast forward 30 years and I’ve picked up a few more tricks
Remember when you could download limewire pro using limewire? Those were the days.
Every other song I downloaded was actually just bill Clinton’s speech: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
So much time wasted running antivirus scans that ate up the whole computer.
I dunno what to say. I never got any viruses. I scanned everything before I opened it and never downloaded any exes.
Yeah but what about Limewire, then?
