I got a old second hand computer and I was told just push this button to turn it on and see what you can do with it,seems no one I knew had one or knew what to do with it so I typed in the addresses off of food products to get to their sites and then as I was on aol and they had a random button I learned how to do that and a lady had a ezine that taught you how to cut and paste and use links and I was off and running with my new love the computer, and here I sit many years later and I am still in love with it.

Great question!

It started because my DH is a computer guy (as a living). I was writing papers while working toward my Master's Degree and he taught me how to use the computer for this... SUCH a life save when it came to editing.

After this, we went through some financial troubles in 1998 because of a very expensive hospitalization for my oldest son that insurance did not cover. I started visiting the internet looking up 'coupons' (found My Coupons at that time!!!... I've been here since 1998 with a break here and there!) and eBay. These two sites helped dig us out of that financial hole and I still visit, and use!, both sites regularly.

Fun to think back...

Very quietly. We started with a Tandy CoCo 3 that no one really liked, but which I didn't get to use much, and moved on to a shared 386, which I wasn't allowed to do much with. I was curious about computers, so started buying cheap components at Goodwill, and trying to get old Commodores and the like running. This was when I was 15 or 16. I've got more freedom now, so I can setup computers as I'd like, do tech support for a living, and my father finally trusts me to use remote assistance to clear up what's wrong with my parents' computers. The bad thing is that even though when I started we used a lot of command line (no icons, just typing), I'm having to learn that all over again, and I could be better!

I started as a teen. It was my first big purchase in 1994, before my first car. I needed it to do school work, my parents couldn't afford it and I had to babysit my brothers so I couldn't stay after school or go to the libaray. I was self taught (into the wee hours of the night). My parents knew nothing of the computer so it is just so lucky nothing bad happened. I found this site when I moved out in 1996 and needed to make ends meet without doing what my parents had done (scamed everyone and everything and every system). The PC had AOL which had some great toutorials on it. Also, using Word for my homework which allowed me to be on it alot.

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how did you learn the computer


Well, by crashing it many times, of course! LOL!!!

Thanks for the smile!

i started when i moved in with my brother he had an apartment downtown and always had poeple over so of course thats where i wanted to be well i learned around 2-6am i would sit on the computer so long that i was there when my brother went to bed and would be there when he woke up!bad huh!?

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In 1999, my DS had a Sega Dreamcast video game console (still has it). You could play some video games online with it, plus it had a browser, but no hard-drive. That's how I found the internet. When I saw all free bingo and printable grocery coupon websites on the internet, I knew I had to get a computer so I could print coupons. (LOL) So, when we got our tax refund in 2000 I bought a Pionex Elite. That's when I found MyCoupons. (My "Join Date" doesn't reflect it, but I've been a member since 2000.) Some of my brothers already had computers and knew all the nerd stuff, so I was constantly calling one of them if I had any questions. I was paranoid about viruses & hackers, so I called them a lot. (LOL) Aside from that, I just constantly played with it, customizing settings, and seeing what I could do with it.

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I started with an old 386 with the Free AOL dialup about 10 years ago. I became interested in it when I got my first email from some freebie site,with a link to Mycoupons in it.
It use to take at least 5-10 minutes for a page to load back then but back then there were all these free $25 off Drugstore.com and Pets.com to make it worth while and it was driving me crazy waiting for pages to load to get through checkout.I remember the first time I deleted cookies.One ..at.. a ..time,lol.It took me ALL day. I learned more and more about how to do things at AOL chat in the tech room.Progressed to PCPitstop,and from there I learned to use Google.Now there isn't anything I can't find out how to do just by typing it into Google.I would say 95% of what I have learned to do on my computer I have learned from Google.The rest just from exploring my computer.