Coming up with the idea of starting a blog wasn't easy. Seriously, I did lack the motivation. But here I am, with my new blog. So, to start off with, let me give you a backstory of how I got to dabble with computers.
Back then in the early 2000s, this young boy coming from a small town on a hill didn't have access to computers. But then as savior(s), came these Internet café or browsing centers (that's how we used to call them!) .Boys of my age, including me would flock to these centers just to play an hour of a game that many of my readers would have guessed it by now which is Grand Theft Auto Vice City. The owner of those centers made a huge fortune out of our hard-earned money. (actually, we had to earn it hard by buttering our parents for that...hahaha!)
As time passed by like this, I came to my home after a small vacation at my aunt's house in another hill town. To my surprise, I was welcomed by this shiny all-black desktop sitting on top of our 20 year old wooden table that was kinda like a inheritance of my dad. Computers in my age were all this beige or white-colored, fat, beeping AMD Athlon powered computers that still looked cool but not as cool as my new complete black desktop that boasted a powerful latest generation Core 2 Duo (hey, it was "latest" and "powerful" back in my day) dual-core processor with a single gigabyte of RAM running Windows XP. I went bonkers looking at my new desktop.
Then, I started to fiddle, mess around with the computer by myself learning how to navigate, open and close files and folders, install applications and games etc.
As time went by, I was getting pretty good at using computers that I developed a strong passion for them. So, there was this monthly magazine called "Digit" and "Chip" here in India that I became an avid reader of, since I got an old issue from the nearby library. The magazine was a deep, technical magazine that had all sorts of computer related stuff that I wanted to know, from hardware to software.
Going on with my story, we had to move to another area of my hometown. My dad took the decision of setting up a DSL internet connection at home which was slow compared to today's standards (but hey, something is better than nothing!) Then I got introduced to YouTube where I started to watch tech-related channels like Linus Tech Tips, GamersNexus and video-game related channels like IGN. I gained thrice the knowledge about computers than I had before, watching these videos.
Skip forward. Here I am, with my under-graduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering with the same old passion that I had.
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