Years 2010 – 2021
Back in 2010 or 2011, not much time after I was born, my dad bought a laptop, and this laptop was a HP Pavilion Sleekbook 15″ 15-b194sl laptop with Windows 8.1 installed. It was super powerful at the time, because it could do multitasking very easily. Obviously, if you use this laptop for multitasking today, it will be a pain, because programs have evolved since then.
In 2016, my aunt gave me a working laptop, a HP Compaq 6720s with Windows 7 installed. It had 2GB@667MHz DDR2 RAM, a very old 32-bit Intel Core 2 Duo [email protected] CPU. Basically, very outdated specs. My mother also bought some Mediacom laptops, but they sucked. They had like 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. At this time, my parents decided to do homeschooling with me and Michael, my brother. I am mentioning this, and you’ll see why later.
After some time, the old hard disk failed, so Windows obviously got uninstalled. However, I did have another hard disk to use, so one day, I managed to re-install Windows! I showed this to my aunt by sending her a photo on WhatsApp. She was impressed that a 5-year-old kid could do this! This is where my passion for computers gets much stronger.
However, Since the Windows version that I had installed was Windows 10 and that laptop was a low-end laptop, it kept having problems with Windows non-stop. I was always there fixing them.
A while later, I then tried installing Windows 8.1, but it still had the same problems. I had then installed Windows XP, and it was working really well. I was really proud. I also remember installing Ubuntu, a Linux distro, on that same laptop around this time.
My brother is very good at 3D activities: crafting, 3D modelling, and 3D design. In this same year, we found a middleground, something that we both enjoyed. We had fun crafting mazes and different “playgrounds” for our pet hamster, until obviously he died. Hamsters don’t live more than 3 years. But fear not, our mum would always buy new ones!
In 2017, when I was 6 years old, I had made a website called Compy The Computer. I had also learnt how to make virtual machines and how to dual-boot! The problem is that I used to make virtual machines on all the devices I had, even on Windows tablets! I maxed out the allocated RAM and CPU, and I used 1TB of virtual disk space on just 64GB of space. I was really destroying those tablets. This is also when my brother and I started the activity of making a paper chain every Christmas and decorating it. We still do this today, 2025, with a lower interest, just for the memories.
My dad’s laptop was having a problem. Basically, for what I could understand back then, the problem was that the hard disk got stuck. My dad is a very patient guy, so he gave that laptop to me. So, what I did, was make it worse. I disassembled it all, and today I seriously regret it because my dad spent 1000€ on it in 2010 – 2011. Sorry dad.
In December of 2018, I got my own laptop. It was a HP EliteBook 8470p, and it had 4GB of RAM and 2.60GHz of CPU clock with 2 cores, and my dad got his own laptop: HP Elitebook 8440p. A few months later, I upgraded the RAM of my computer to 8GB. In 2019, I was 8 years old and I subscribed to too many newsletters, so my mum and I, paranoid as we were, said it would be a good idea to delete the Google account. That Google account was used to access the website manager for Compy The Computer.
Later on, I also learned how to make MacOS virtual machines and I learned that I shouldn’t use up all the RAM, CPU, and storage anymore. My parents had enough of me breaking computers and tablets and they said “Stop using virtual machines, they break your computer!”. I didn’t care, I kept making virtual machines anyway. It would not be the end for my love, hard work, and passion for ISOs, virtual machines, and messing around with Windows.
In this same year, my parents even subscribed me to a swimming course just for me to stop being on the computer so much! They got it for free, because our cousin was working there.
In 2020, I was 9, and we started going out with people independently. Although some did have a bad influence, we still managed to get good friends who we talk to even today.
In that same summer, I downloaded a clone of Minecraft called Minicraft. It’s a bit like Craftsman. Then I discovered how to download Minecraft on my laptop legally and for free. For some reason, you could use up to 1.7.10 without paying or pirating the game, so I used it. I was gradually switching from tech to basic gaming.
In 2021, I was 10 and I kept going out with them, but it was the last year, we agreed with our parents. At the end of this year, I made my channel called Villager Boy! The videos on this channel were very cringe and I sounded like a kid. However, my mum didn’t want me to make videos at the time because she said that I was too young. Now, in 2024, I’m not much older, but she doesn’t want me to delete anything of what I’ve created. I also immaturely promoted my videos in Minecraft Live and in other channels’ comments. Rightfully, I didn’t receive any support from these creators, so I figured it was useless, but that didn’t stop me.