Personal Narrative: A Three-Year-Old Learning

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Visualize a three-year-old learning how to use a clunky desktop with windows 98, which was decent in its time. My father purchased our first home computer in 2001, and ever since then I have had a computer. I started out only being able to use the default games when I was three-years-old to repairing them by the time I was 12 by being educated by my father or adopting skills from the internet. My mother never grew up around computers, but my dad got his degree in Computer Science, so he knew how to program and do some hardware fixes. I didn’t originally want anything to do with computers besides play games until a computer broke and we took it to “Geek Squad” to get fixed and they charged 75$ to find the problem. Geek Squad told us it was

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