I don’t remember when my family started having a computer at home. It seems like we’ve had one since I can remember, but it couldn’t connect to the internet (before 2010 maybe). Anyway, when I first started using it, I would use software from USB drives or CDs, such as literacy software and CDs from kindergarten English textbooks.
When I was a bit older (elementary school), I would use Thunder to download pirated movies and bring them to the countryside to watch during the Chinese New Year, like the Home Alone series.
Around third or fourth grade, I watched my mom use online banking to buy a few Rubik’s Cubes on Taobao (they’re still at home). We also bought an iPad 3, and I would play games like Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, and My Talking Tom.
When I graduated from elementary school (2015), I got my own mobile phone and a basic feature phone.
In the later years of elementary school and the first year of junior high, I played games on 4399.com and bought Q coins recharge cards to recharge games on 4399.com and various QQ memberships.
In the second and third year of junior high, I played CrossFire and a little bit of Honor of Kings.
In high school, I only played Honor of Kings, but I didn’t really enjoy playing games.
In my second year of high school (2019), I took a computer qualification exam and learned FrontPage and IIS. Since then, I’ve been unstoppable when it comes to building websites, haha.
There are so many stories that came after, I’ll have to slowly remember them. It’s really interesting.