Youngest web designer

[Sameer Jamal]

The youngest Software Kid / Web designer of The world.

Microsoft technologies are only helpful for the kids of his age.

[Chetan Parekh]

Well I have my own achievement. I never ever operated / touched computer until I completed my graduation. When I tell this to people, many don�t believe me.

[Arjunkumar Shastry]

First time I heard about computers in 1986,saw in 1987,touched during 1988/89 then in 1992/93 then 1996 onwards till date.
(First time I saw computer ,my impression was that monitor is the computer and CPU is just some box on which computer(monitor) is kept to match eye level.)


[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Arjunkumar Shastry ]

[Chetan Parekh]

Originally posted by Arjunkumar Shastry:
(First time I saw computer ,my impression was that monitor is the computer and CPU is just some box on which computer(monitor) is kept to match eye level.)

[Sameer Jamal]

Originally posted by Arjunkumar Shastry:
First time I heard about computers in 1986,saw in 1987,touched during 1988/89 then in 1992/93 then 1996 onwards till date.
(First time I saw computer ,my impression was that monitor is the computer and CPU is just some box on which computer(monitor) is kept to match eye level.)

[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Arjunkumar Shastry ]

First time I touched computer it was 1988 when we used to build QBASIC programs and use to sit 3 guys on a single PC after that I began to hate computers then touched it on 1997 onwards till date using it.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Sameer Jamal:
The youngest Software Kid / Web designer of The world.

That site is pretty funny. The forged Bill Gates signature is the best.

[Chetan Parekh]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
The forged Bill Gates signature is the best.

[Arjunkumar Shastry]

Why that kid always meets politicians?

[Chetan Parekh]

Originally posted by Arjunkumar Shastry:
Why that kid always meets politicians?

Check this pict, Sonia is more happy than the kids


[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Chetan Parekh ]

[Chetan Parekh]

Check How I am Ahead of My Grandfather section

[Sunil Kumar Gupta]

Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
Well I have my own achievement. I never ever operated / touched computer until I completed my graduation. When I tell this to people, many don�t believe me.

Ya Chetan , It happens. People don't believe.
The same is with me...No computer untill I completed my graduation.


[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Sunil Kumar Gupta ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:

It says "To Dear Ajay..." A native American English speaker might write "To Ajay", or 'Dear Ajay". A very pretentious one might write "My Dear Ajay" or even "To My Dear Ajay". But no native American English speaker would ever write "To Dear Ajay". Sorry.

[Chetan Parekh]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:

It says "To Dear Ajay..." A native American English speaker might write "To Ajay", or 'Dear Ajay". A very pretentious one might write "My Dear Ajay" or even "To My Dear Ajay". But no native American English speaker would ever write "To Dear Ajay". Sorry.

You got the point. I have doubts too now. Check two different sample, both are not identical.

Following is the original handwriting of Bill Gates



Following is the handwriting of Bill Gates on kid's site.


[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Chetan Parekh ]

[Mani Ram]

First time I saw & used a computer was during 1988. It was a Commodore unit, connected to a TV. Used it only for playing games (Pacman was my favorite).

First programming in 1996. I typed a 'Hello World' C program and got error message for every line I typed. Then realized that I should be typing it in the IDE and not on the DOS Command prompt

With in a week, purchased a system. The salesperson gave a demo and everything looked fine. But when I tried to execute a file, I always got 'Bad command or file name'. Called him and shouted at him for selling a defective piece. He came down to my house, saw what I did, then explained that only certain types of files (exe, cmd, com, bat etc) can be executed. I remember this incident every time I read some jokes about the customer care people

[Mani Ram]

Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
Following is the original handwriting of Bill Gates

This the the signature of Bill Gates (from Microsoft site)

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
It says "To Dear Ajay..." A native American English speaker might write "To Ajay", or 'Dear Ajay". A very pretentious one might write "My Dear Ajay" or even "To My Dear Ajay". But no native American English speaker would ever write "To Dear Ajay". Sorry.

I doubt that it is forged,....

.... but you never know

AW first time I saw computer in 1994(386 processor, B&W monitor, used to boot with bootable floppy) and I found it to be good typewriter where you can edit before taking a printout on dot matrix printer.

BTW, at that time i did not know why sometimes lab instructor would use that black flat thing to start computer.....

[Rajan Chinna]

The first time I touched the computer was 1995 learning dBase III, Lotus 123 and Cobol, wow a single spell mistake in cobol throw tons of error messages... booting 286 system with 5 1/4 disk.

[Ram Bhakt]

The first time I "saw" a computer was in my father's office in a research center (I don't even remember how old I was).... they used to have punched cards and I remember playing with them. Years later, I remember using wordstar, dbase, lotus 123 in 1989/1990.
[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Ram Bhakt ]

[Stan James]

I go further back with computers. My dad's brother went to IBM in the late 60s. For a while he had the world's 2nd largest microchip production line in his lab, doing research for the 1st largest production line next door. My mother has a circular silicon wafer with IBM 360 CPUs on it. The first one I used was a Nova at the college where my dad taught. (4K, Basic with line numbers, teletype and paper tape.) We wrote grading and class ranking programs that the registrar used for a decade or so until they moved to Apple ][ programs.

[Angela Poynton]

The photos are clearly forged.

Particuarly this one



The two people on the left are clearly from a different photo.
It's cunning but ultimately rubbish.
Plus if this kid's such a genius you'd think he'd design a nicer looking website, that one hurts my eyes.

My first computer experience was an Amstrad CPC464 when I was 10. I thought it was the best thing ever and using the manual that came with it I taught myself to program in Locomotive BASIC, I wrote a number of programs the most complex of which identified who from the household was using the computer and offered a personalised menu for that person (e.g My mum wouldn't want to play games but she might was to use it as a word processor.). I only had the Tape Drive and never got around to getting the Floppy Disk Drive. I have always said that it was thanks to my experiences with this machine that I found HTML to so easy to learn because their was no real GUI for the software, so for the word processing software you had to manually "markup" the text. I know now that the marku pwas a form of SGML which of course spawned HTML
I kept it for 5 years, I had loved learnign to program but ultimately my IT teacher at school was a bitch so I never progressed with it asn gave up as soon as I could. I didn't own a computer of my own again (aside from word processors which don't count) until 1999 and had just Graduated and come to this job. Before that though I had used the library computers at University to learn HTML and by 1999 I already had a number of websites online.


[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Angela Poynton ]

[Christophe Verré]

My first computer was also an Amstrad !!
But 6128, the one with floppies. This computer was fun. Sweet memories
I still play with the emulator sometimes.

[R K Singh]

oh .. so many kids are there out with MS cert.

http://www.rediff.com/search/2002/aug/13kids.htm

[Sameer Jamal]

Originally posted by R K Singh:
oh .. so many kids are there out with MS cert.

http://www.rediff.com/search/2002/aug/13kids.htm

You know its a kid's business.

[R K Singh]

Originally posted by Sameer Jamal:
You know its a kid's business.

No doubt, MS is made for kids only

OK OK .. MS if for people with kid's mind

[Mark Fletcher]

My first computer was a BBC Model B Microcomputer. Whilst all the other normal kids were getting C-64's and ZX Spectrum's, I was one of the unlucky kids that got the Beeb because "you could do your homework on it".



Fortunately I tossed out the homework part and had a great time playing Chuckie Egg instead!

[Gregg Bolinger]

Originally posted by Angela Poynton:
The photos are clearly forged.

Particuarly this one



The two people on the left are clearly from a different photo.
It's cunning but ultimately rubbish.
Plus if this kid's such a genius you'd think he'd design a nicer looking website, that one hurts my eyes.


[ March 28, 2006: Message edited by: Angela Poynton ]

The more obvious dupe in this photo is the woman's left hand in the middle. It's cupped to hold the kid, but it's on top of the kids legs.
[ March 30, 2006: Message edited by: Gregg Bolinger ]

[Arjunkumar Shastry]

Yes.Also person towards her left side is almost touching her!!.This will never happen atleast when somebody is taking a photograph of chief of political party.