”I still remember being a small kid and my dad taking me to his office and printing out sheets of ‘clip-art’ for me to draw around. The word computer evoked a sense of awe for late-1980s Indians, as personal computers didn’t ...
“I remember it was in mid-1999 when we finally got a computer at home. It was exciting, even though I had some experience using one at a friend’s place and at school. It was a Pentium II 330Mhz, 32 MB ram, with a 4GB hard disk - top ...
“My joy knew no bounds when I received my first computer way back in 1997, running the 16-bit operating system, Windows 3.1. Preloaded games like
minesweeper and solitaire remained a favourite past time then. Simple things like the ...
Nishant Jain, from India, is an MSc Mechanical Engineering student specializing in biomechanical design.
“I must have been about 8 or 9 when my dad bought our family its first computer, a Hyundai with an XT processor. It only accepted the big 5-inch floppies and had no hard drive. At some point my dad upgraded and bought a 30MB hard ...
“Little did I anticipate the level of dependency that I’d eventually have in life when first laying my hands on a personal computer as a 4th grader in the mid 1990s. From geeky Windows 3.0 to its more convenient descendant, Windows ...
“I first got my hands on to a computer when I was 10 years old. It did not take long before I was teaching grownups on how to use the internet or operate those seemingly complex functions. In the beginning it was just about games and ...
“I got my first computer - a Commodore 64 - when I was very young - 6 years old. I was a bit of a geek in school, and so was quite keen to learn DOS and other early computer skills. From the Commodore I moved up to a 386 and then a ...