I first saw a computer live in college hostel. The senior used to guard the PC like his most precious thing and we freshers were allowed to watch from the back wall. Obviously we must not touch!!! Had to oil him too much to first use MSPaint.
My geeklife started with one incident. Second sem. I had bought PC and knew nothing of it apart from how to play song in Winamp and WMP. Got the Winamp s/w from one of senior. Now my Winamp got crashed and I went to the senior for the s/w. He made me wait three days and lots of hot words how he's the superior human being etc. I have had enough. I asked his roommates where from he gets the s/w and they told me the secret word "Digit".
I saved money from my tiffin, cut budget from other expenses and next month bought Digit. Since then there was no stopping.
Next phase was when I was allowed to enter Internet lab (second yr)!!! That was my turning point in my life. Whenever I used to get time I was in the lab. Kaise na kaise maine Lab-ke sir ko pataya (we became great frnds later, I used to give him all songs he could imagine and he would let me sit in the lab, remember only me, none else
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I still remember, in final year one gal wrote in my slambook how she hated me for sitting infront of the computer for hours and not talking to them.
