Tech Isn’t Just My Hobby. It’s My Story.

 

Most people have a living room. I have a basement full of blinking lights, beeping buzzers, and the smell of old plastic. Welcome to my workshop.

Ever since i was a kid, i’ve been fascinated by tech gadgets: at the age of 4, i used to burn my own CDs, help dad looking for music, mess with dad’s phone settings and whatever.

But the true turning point came when i started elementary school. I was sitting bored at my desk, when I noticed teacher, struggling at playing the DVD that came with the English book. I saw the VLC icon on the teacher’s desktop, so i stood up and told her: “You should use VLC to play the DVD. You see that traffic cone on the desktop?”.
Not even the time to finish talking that she screamed at me this: “I AM OLDER THAN YOU I KNOW THINGS BETTER THAN YOU!!!”.
Well, in the end, she ended up using VLC, like i told her.

That was the moment i thought:

“Well I can do something better than the teacher so, why don’t keep doing things better than the teacher”.

I became then a sort of “IT technician” at any school I attended.

Around the same time, grandma (who lives at 1st floor) let me use her basement like i wanted. Imagine what a 6 years old kid can do to a basement. I was so creative, I used to make computers and appliances with cardboard. But, after a few years, these cardboard computers turned into real, something i would have never expected before.
The first computer to enter the basement was a broken HP desktop that dentist gave me: my first approach disassembling a computer on my own. And yes, i broke it further but who cares: I learned how a computer Is made at the age of 7.

No one in family used to be familiar with computers and I felt like in need of a “teacher” to learn even more computer stuff.
That’s where YouTube comes in. I learned everything from a particular creator who disassembled computers and stuff like that. Believe it or not, at the age of 10 I already knew how to make a RAID of disks.
Talking about being 10 years old, that year my dad brought home this:

It was love at first sight.

And that’s how I started experimenting with old tech (which should, for me its MUST actually, be called “retro”). This Pentium III running Windows 98 brought me into the retro tech world.

Then I discovered iPods (I still daily drive one btw) and built a collection and then Nokia Lumias (built a collection of these too). I was a cool kid. Wasn’t I?

Then I started to grow, experimenting with computers and stuff bought at local fleas and things like that.
I developed a passion for the HI-FI world too and now I can push dad’s 40 years old Telefunken amp at full volume, enjoying 80’s beats like he used to.

What about now? Well I basically do the same things, except that I bought a domain and started blogging here, just for fun. Now that I have a blog, I can finally have my digital blank canvas like I do in my basement, which will be now renamed to “The Workshop”.