Did anyone catch your interest to be a Geek, or was it natural?

Did anyone catch your interest to be a Geek, or was it natural? Or both?

When I was real young, a friend of my grandmas always sat me down on a *nix machine when I was over his house.

He used to be a simple game programmer just for fun, so I guess I was his giney pig? I eventually found myself wanting to play them!

He later built me a computer for myself, ever since then I haven't stopped.

What about yous? If not for computers, then what?

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Permalink Reply by Matt DeFazio on April 21, 2009 at 8:33pm: It was natural for me...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Brandon Turnbull on April 21, 2009 at 10:19pm: id say i first lerned i was a geek in 1996 why you ask? red alert came out (and yes for thos who noticed i was polaying red alert at the age of 6... i was terrible back then lol) and i was hooked since then ive played every cnc game to come out so as a game geek it was learned but as an art geek it was natueral but ive only relized that im an "art geek" 2 years ago up until then i just thought i was good at it; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sol McNally Aka : Dmitri Girl on April 22, 2009 at 12:41am: Did anyone catch my interest. Well growing up with my dad who is a teacher. That right there sort of well Put me in the geek realm without a choice somewhat. And the other person is my brother. We were really close when I was growing up. I always asked him silly computer questions while he was making count the stars program on an apple 2e. Or just other random computer questions as the years went along. I was thirsty for computer knowledge. Cause he was always doing something. And I had nothing to do. Usually this was also on Sundays. As a younger child I was not allowed to leave the house on Sunday. I believe he was around 11 and I was 9.

As for my dad. I started what I would call my art stuff at around 3 or 4. I colored with my dad like it was part of my religion every sunday. We always had a coloring book. And we colored two pages that were next to each other every sunday. From probably about 3-11 or 12.

As for my mom. I would say she is the reason for my music geekness. She always listened to a lot of different kinds of music when we were driving around in the car. And I drove around a lot in the car with her when I was a little kid.

AS for my dad actually drawing or really anyone in my family for that matter the talent does not exist other then me and well my cousin. I am sure there are others in my extended family but she is the only one I know for sure.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mighty Mow on April 28, 2009 at 10:27am: As the saying goes, "curiosity killed the cat", but in my case,its the other way around, curiousity open my mind to discover things. In happened a long time ago, when i was small kid 20yrs+++ ago LOL, on my chinese schoolmate house, when my friend introduced me to use ABACUS... All of us will agree, that computers started from scratch, like from a humble grassroot level.. since then, my interest to computers never stopped.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mario Fanous on April 28, 2009 at 10:34am: it happened wen my computer at school wen i was a lil kid broke and i fixed it then my dad got my first computer; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Toon Schoenmakers on May 26, 2009 at 8:37am: My dad is kind of a geek. When I was around 8 years old he learned me html, javascript and some more of that basic stuff. Nowdays (16 years old) he is into php, mysql etc.. and he learns me some of that stuff to :).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Persian Paladin on May 26, 2009 at 9:45am: It all started when I started reading Amstrad Action magazines (i.e. for an 8-bit computer I had) back in the 80's as a kid. I read them from cover-to-cover, and also learned programming from them.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Charan on May 26, 2009 at 11:01am: It was natural .; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by PC Geek Kate on May 26, 2009 at 1:13pm: All natural. I played on the computer at school in 3rd grade. I wanted to open it up and see what was inside. I remember having this huge grin on my face. I guess I've always been a fan of hardware.; ▶ Reply to This