I'm probably the smallest here in this thread, I just turned 19, and pretty much as u guys, I first sat in front of a pc (my cousin's) I was 8 years old, maybe 9 I can't remember... it was a Pentium I 100 MHZ, Windows 95.

At that time computers were very rare when I live (Lebanon - Middle East) I didn't know anything about programming nor internet, everyday I used to dig in the files, try stuff I have no idea what they are... when I bought my own PII 400 MHZ win98SE, I had to reinstall windows every week, due to missing files and corrupted stuff...( It's in the name of science ) I started learning programming last year; I'm majoring in Computer Science (2nd year now), I learned a little assembly language, lots of C++, VB.NET & SQL, this year I started C programming under UNIX, and I'm using Mandrake on a virtual machine! Right now I'm teaching myself sockets and networking, I barely find time for them but I'm struggling.

I hope someday I'll work as a system administrator or something BIG in the computer field! I'm now working as a middle man between my university and an institute, we're designing them a database system that may evolve into a server later, and I'm running the system there...

This forum is great, I'm learning a lot from it, and I just wish I had more time to read every thread!

One last thing, sorry for the big paragraph, I got carried away