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dBlast,Sep 28 2006, 09:53 AM Wrote:The first computer game I owned was the first computer game ever sold to the public.  Atari "Pong"

The computer programming we learned in school involved filling out squares with pencil on cards.

Personal computers, internet, and cell phones did not exist at my high school.

My first skateboard was one of the first ones with polyurathane wheels and the board was in the shape of a mini surf board.  (and I still use it now, its faster than my daughter's new boards)
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guess I'm not quite as old...

The first computer game I (or my family) owned was Space Invaders on the vic-20. My parents refused to allow us to have game machines. I didn't own my first console until I was 21 years old (a playstation when I moved out). But we did have (in order) VIC-20, C-64, Amiga 1000, IBM 386 sx-20.

The programming I taught myself was BASIC.. I wrote my first program when I was 8 -- (I spent an entire summer indoors when I was 10 writing a program on the c-64).

In highschool, I was kicked off the computers for a week for exploiting a security hole in the unisys icon OS and walling "f*** you" to the entire school (along with my terminal ID -- d'oh!).

We had no cellphones, and I often called collect from the school's payphone. many a times, my parents received the automated operator, "Hi, do you accept collect call charges from, 'Steve needs a ride!'?"

My first skateboard wasn't torpedo shaped, but it had big wheels, and kids knew the skill of, "skating" the board - propelling it without having to put your foot down.

**whoops.. I did have a console before I was 21... I bought myself the original Atari Lynx when I was 12 or 13...