Life and Computers

Well, yesterday I wrote about my life, today i'll talk about computers.

Computers are my life, it all started in december 1995 when my father brought home our first computer (I still have this computer at my house, and a couple of days ago i decided to turn it on, and it still boots!!), it had a Pentium Pro Processor and it came with Windows 95 installed, I decided I wanted to work with computers that same day, I could spend hours with it just moving the mouse, i was amazed at how by moving the mouse in one direction, the cursor moved in the same direction, I didn't know how it worked and maybe that was the thing that made me think it was so amazing and made me want to know everything about computers.

When I grew up a bit, I started attending to computing classes in a local academia, and a couple of years later, some computing courses were made at my school, I liked them because we worked with computers, but theory was boring because I already know it.

Next year, 2000, we started using internet at my house, with a company called EresMas, which don't exist anymore. We had a 56 kilobaud connection and it was really awesome how you could find information on pretty much everything so fast (fast at that time, when most pages were plain HTML and some images, now with a 56kbps connection you will spend a long time only to log in to your webmail). At that time people were starting to use ISDN lines and next year came ADSL to Spain (in Spain we never had DSL, now you can see some providers offering 100 Mbps but that's not DSL it's FTTH, lines have been always asimetric, and now, according to speed/price, we have the most expensive internet connection in Europe). We wanted to have that thing called ADSL that everybody talked about, but it ws too expensive, so we waited three years until prices were lower. I was at high school at that moment and I discovered hispasec, a spanish source for news about computer security, i found really interesting what hispasec's bulletin told that hackers were able to made, and that's when I decided not only that I wanted to work with computers, also I wanted to work in IT security.

in 2004 i started attending to university, I was so happy that I was studying what I wanted since I was a child, I learnt a lot about programming, about hardware, about operating systems (I discovered GNU/Linux one year before starting the university, and I already used it, but I could not appreciate how well built it was until I studied it in the second year of the degree), computer networks and so on. I learnt some things about security, mainly thanks to some partners who knew some tricks, but not enough to work on that, that's why I am now working in a small company, making what others don't want to (system and network maintenance mainly). But well, I'm still learning some things by myself, and I hope I will find my dream job soon.