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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Man (or woman), you’re not the only one!  In my teenage years Doom was months away from release, and my favorite computer (not owned, but taught to use) was a Mac Performa.  I dreamed of owning my own PC but didn’t get one until 2003.

It was a Compaq (remember THEM?  The big bulky towers with hardly anything inside?) with Windows XP Service Pack 2, 2 GHz Athlon XP 64 with an integrated graphics chip by Acme or Econo-Buy or Wal-Mart Boiler Room or something.  But MAN, as weak as that machine was, I’ll never forget it.

ETA: I was TWENTY-FIVE when I bought that $450 tower+monitor in a box.  My first fully-researched, self-assembled gaming rig: March 8, 2021, at age 42.
gpt
Congrats man we made it, life only gets better from here!