How many YEARS of your life have you spent on the computer?

[Firewing1]

I'm a little shocked, amazed and laughing at once... I've calculated that roughly, I've spent 1.89 of my soon to be 16 years on the computer... How about you? How many hours do you do per day would you say on average?

Mine's probably around 3-4, but lately it's been more.
Firewing1

[Dan]

Hmmm.

Interesting idea. Are you talking uptime, at the desk time, or actually on the keyboard and mouse time?


Dan

[Firewing1]

Actual keyboard and mouse time
I'm not sure 1.89 considering that is a good thing or bad thing!
Firewing1

[Dan]

I don't think I'm going to like this answer.

Hmmm. OK. Due to the nature of what I do now, I'd say 5-7 hours a day.

But that won't give a real useful number in that I spent a number of decades blissfully unaware before they were marketed, and several more years after that avoiding them.


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i conservatively said i used about 2 hours a day over the past 10years.. . on average, so im up for 304 days, 0.8 or a year. :P

Honestly thought it would be more then that.

[Dies]

Not much, I've only had a PC for a couple of years and I've only been spending a lot of time on it since I became an unemployed bum.

[tw2113]

way too much.

I'm only 23, and I've been on a computer in some form since before Windows 3.x
However, it wasn't until junior high age range that I had my very own personal computer that I didn't have to share, and around that time was also the booming of the internet, so that kept me inside instead of hanging out with peers(don't completely regret that). So basically, most of HS and all of college, I've been on computers VERY regularly. nearly 10 years of internet use.

I need a life

[Plossl]

Well, graduate school alone was two years - though I did stop to eat every now and then. By now I'm sure I've spent more time not AFK than I ever did in front of a TV.

[leadgolem]

4.125 of 22 years. I like to play games and write. No, I don't have a life.

[LinuxTom]

A very conservative estimate in the last 15 years (I'm not counting my pre-inet Atari, TRS-80 days) would be about 2.51, and that doesn't factor periods of unemployment, where I stayed on this dang thing for days at a time.

[bob]

Hmmm, well maybe 3-4 years in total (we ARE counting porn, right?) Seriously though, Firewing1 and others, you may very well make your living with these machines and have tremendous talent so it's certainly not time wasted. Just keep that balance with family, friends and some outside activities (forget school) and the time will be well spent.

[ibbo]

I am 36 and got my first computer (A ZX81) a long long time ago (20 odd years now yikes). Back in the day I was on it all the time like I am these days (though is work related these days). Thankfully I took a good ten years off and did something completely worthless like joining up (NOT recomended you yung uns). I was also married once (also not recommended "unless she is deaf and dumb with a fine set of breasts") which caused no end of downtime too.

I would not llike to add it up. I do know though (says this smiling) that its got nothing on the number of hours I have spent propping up a bar down some pub.

But even then some of our much more seasoned members can possible give you yung uns some insight into the future of shining seats for fun or a living. When you reach the rank of shiny arsse you know your almost at the top or you have forgotton what a sunrise/ set looks like.

Ibbo

[pete_1967]

Weekdays minimum 8 hours a day and weekends around 4-6 hours a day makes at least 48 hours a week. About 2500 hours a year for about 25 years makes around 63 000 hours which again makes about 2650 days that converts to over 7 years, minimum.

That's what you end up with when you decide to make your living from programming and then do it. All work no play

[Lindy]

How many YEARS of your life have you spent on the computer?

Is that analog or digital?

[schwim]

I'm sure the number would amaze me if I could be arsed to calculate it, but my thought is this; it's what I love to do. I enjoy it enough that I don't regret the time on it. I do it for work then continue using it when it's play time, so God only knows how many hours I've racked up, but I wouldn't feel bad when I find out the number is a little high. It's my occupation & pastime.

The trick is balance. For fun, I also hike, Geocache, ride dirt bikes and play guitar.

I got my first computer around 9 or 10 (a TRS 80, pre-monitor that you hooked up to a tv), and a lot of people here can remember what it was like. If you wanted it to do something, you wrote it(usually from a project book that came with the computer). When you turned it off, you lost the program and started over. There were no games. If you wanted to see a guy walk across the screen, you wrote it. Comparatively, today's computers are like cheating

As my DI said to me once: "Son you've either got to be tough or stupid to do this. Luckily for you, you're what we'd call a double-threat."

thanks,
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