Thoreauvienne’s Nook

Hi there! I am Thoreauvienne(Thuh-roh-vee-en) and you stumbled into my corner of the internet. I’ve been a computer nerd ever since my parents decided to put a computer in front of me at the precocious age of about 4. I have no idea what specs the original machine I played on was, but my best guess would be some random 386 or 486 that definitely ran an early Windows install. I was given strict time limits in those days, and regularly expected to touch grass, so I never got any in depth on how they worked until well into my teen years. In some aspects I feel behind my peers because of this, but I’ve found I’m a quick study which helps bridge the gap in my lack of digital freedom in my upbringing. The first machine that really got me excited about computers was an iMac G3 running macos 8.6 at my school. It was one of the fruit colors, as our computer lab had just gotten them in a year or two prior. I learned how to actually use a computer that year, and that Windows wasn’t the only option on the table.