When did you jump on the computer bandwagon?

Limber up your ePenis, you 0ldsk00l hax0rz, because it’s time to slap them puppies out and determine whose is biggest. How long ago did you recognize the awesomeness and inevitability of computers? What was your first experience with telecommunication? (“I can write with it, create with it, telecommunicate with it, my ______!”—ten quatloos to the first person who can fill in the blank; ten more quatloos to the first person who can tell me what a quatloo is.)

My chops:

- My first home computer was a Coleco Adam.

- My first console was a Telstar Pong.

- My first modem was a 110 baud teletype machine with an acoustic coupler for the bakelite telephone handset, with which I would dial up the local university mainframe and play “Minotaur’s Maze.” If I wanted to do anything else, I had to call them up and ask them to change the reel.

- I am fully qualified in the use of an IBM alphanumeric keypunch. Do not bend, fold, spindle, staple, or mutilate…

- My favourite arcade game as a kid was Taito’s Borderline.

I knew the first time I set eyes on a computer that this was going to be huge, and I’ve been a colossal geek ever since. So how about it, how many of you are 1337 and how many are just l4m3 christmas users? (Ten quatloos to the first person who can tell me what a christmas user is.)