I remeber my 1st computer was a 133 Mhz with a 36k dial-up, I had a pager before I had a phone, but im sure the phone was Nokia and had Snake 🐍
Edit: pc was around 94? 95? Tbf we had a Tandy 1000 as a family computer in late 80s
Tandy… Kings Quest. So good. California Games. I miss how simple life used to be.
Anyone over 40 who doesn’t say Nokia or Motorola is either lying or should check themselves into memory rehab.
My first computer was a Commodore 128. Of course it mainly ran in C64 mode for all the games.
I used an old TV as the monitor. I secretly bought an antenna cable so that I could watch TV. Through some in-house cabling stuff I could also see the BMX videos my older brother was watching. Good times.
First computer in about '99, which I’d “built” (I was 8, so I mostly just watched while my dad’s friend built it and occasionally let me plug some wires in)
First phone, Nokia 3310 in 2003, with a Simpsons case, I think I’ve got it in a box somewhere…
Commodore 64, with the tape reader, hooked to a black&white CRT
Seems I’m the eldest one here for now
Same. First program I built was a bouncing circle, took 15 minutes to code and an hour to save to the cassette.
Commodore 64. I played BC’s Quest for Tires for hours! 1996 Sony Vaio.
I’m kind of jealous. My first program was asking the user what 2+2 is and either displaying wrong or right.
When my cousin came to visit he coded a simple labyrinth like game where you had to move the cursor from the upper left corner to the lower right corner of the screen as quickly as possible while not bumping into random symbols scattered around. Sometimes it was unwinnable because the entrance or the exit were completely surrounded.
Be neither alone nor afraid, your brethren gather
I think I have you slightly beat… mine was an Apple II+, circa late 1981, with a disk drive, and a monochrome green screen monitor.
First cell phone was around 1997. Though I honestly don’t remember what it was. I recall having a Nokia model from before they made that indestructible model in all the memes, as well as a Kyocera one that I could connect to a laptop and have wireless dial up internet at some abysmal speed like 20 kbps. (0.02 mbps). I had at least two more phones, including a Treo 650 “smartphone” before getting my first iPhone, a 3G. I’m on my sixth iPhone now.
Phone: it looked like https://www.sparkshire.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/CREAM8746TELEPHONE_1512x.png?v=1627985748
Computer: ZX spectrum
Commodore 64
Third or fourth hand nokia, one of em indestructible ones. I was in school, so I didn’t have much use for one. Kept using nokia until I got a blackberry, and then a samsung. Moved over to iphone but didn’t like it much.
My first computer was a ZX81 - in 1982 - which, with my brother, I built from a kit and was astonished when it actually worked. We eventually added the 16k ram pack too: how could anyone possibly use all that?!
First phone. I think it was a Nokia 5110 or similar in 2000.
First computer, Tandy Coco 2 (TRS-80) in 1988 or 89.
First phone (other than a landline) was a Motorola bag phone around 1996(?)
My first computer too. That’s where I learned my first bit of basic programming. Used to get magazines with pages of code to type in. Always needed tons of troubleshooting.
I have no idea what the specs of my first computer was, but I know that it was running Windows 98 and was one of those old beige boxes that looks terrible, but that was like the only color for computers back then for whatever the hell reason was that God awful beige tan shit. That would have been in about 2003 and my school was running computers with Windows XP at the time.
I got my first cell phone in 2006 or 2007 and it was a Sony Ericsson flip phone on AT&T and it was this black and white flip phone. At about that same time, I also got my very first laptop, and it was running Windows Vista, I think, and we still had dial-up, because nothing more modern had come to our little country home. So I had to use 19 KB/s dial-up until 2010.
I got my first smartphone in 2011 and it was an iPhone 3GS because it was either free or $99 on contract. I remember being in a 100,000 population city and listening to Pandora with edge cell data and having an entire monthly allotment of like a gigabyte or maybe two. I also remember the rollout of 3G because I started seeing that in the city of 100,000 people and only had 2G in my hometown and then finally one day saw 3G was beginning to roll out in my hometown.
All computers were beige… unless you were a smoker, then it was an ugly yellow-brown color after a few months
I absolutely hate that color and seeing it just makes me want to vomit.
My first phone was the standard '70s Bell-style rotary
My first phone was a Nokia 100 in 2008, my first computer I owned was my first laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad 100S (4GB RAM, 64GB Storage) in 2017. I’m currently rocking a phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G) that has better specs (6GB RAM, 128GB Storage) than that old laptop which is still kinda crazy to me. I also think the processor is more powerful as well, but don’t know the exact specs off the top of my head.
First computer though a console Atari 2600 when I was 5
Proper computer Acorn electron at 7
Phone 6610 at 14
I’m going to claim the family PC as my first computer. It was a 486 running DOS and Windows 3.1. I got my first taste of Windows 95 when my dad bought my sister a new PC to take to college. I remember installing Jedi Knight on there then having to wait years for an upgrade to the family PC where I could load Windows XP and play newer games.
First phone was an old blue Nokia, possibly a 3310, looking at old pics. I called it a Blueberry to make fun of the flagships of the day. I got it at 16 when I got my license and was told in no uncertain terms that I was not to use it unless I was hopelessly lost or wrapped around a tree.
