I think its really interesting to hear about experiences outside of the US. One of my very first memories about computers is watching my dad play single player

I think its really interesting to hear about experiences outside of the US. One of my very first memories about computers is watching my dad play single player Quake 1 in his home office. I think that was around 2001 when I was 6y old. I got my own seperate PC several years later, 2006. We didnt't have Internet connection until 2011 so until then I used all of my pocket money to buy blank CD-R and DVD-R towers and filled them with software and media at local library computers. On one summer school break I drove over 1000km between the library and my home. During that time I managed to mess around with building games and got introduced to Linux and PHP programming. After 2011 the internet at home was limited to mobile 2G EDGE speeds (~20kb/s) because during that time 3G was not a thing on Estonian countryside where I lived.