Looking forward to seeing some of your photos on the Weekly Photo threads:
https://www.twit.community/t/the-photo-thread-week-of-11-3-19/3601
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Hi Everyone! Great to be here! I have been listening/watching Leo since the Tech TV days. I am one of the few who does still use my Ipod to listen to the Twit network podcasts. I am happy for this community as I am not able to listen live and get into the chats. Thanks for starting this up! I live in Kansas and have better knowledge of tech thanks to Leo and his shows than most people I work with or know.
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Hello! I am from Montreal, QC, Canada. Huge fan of Leo Laporte since Call for Help which I would watch pretty much daily back when I was in High School. Lab with Leo was great too! I enjoy many of the TWiT podcasts now. His shows contributed for my inspiration to pursue computer science. Thank you, Leo and your team for the awesome content!
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Hi I only go back about 15 years or so with podcats and Twit, but I’ve been a geek from way back as a child I became a space geek watching the moon landing live, at school, I am also a book geek (book worm) from childhood.
I got into computers in 1987 when I went to uni (University/College) I took up computers to complement my first love Mathematics, Computers took up a life of their own, I became a professional computer programmer after finishing my BSc and Honours in pure maths, in 1991 I have been a programmer ever since, I mainly program in Perl and Python but I prefer C++ and Perl6, but I know > 20 languages, I was a Windows Delphi programmer, and C++Builder coder, but I am now a Linux coder solely.
In 1991 I took up Video/TV in my church, Hillsong Church (volunteer) I do CCU (the irises and colour balance, blacks etc), which I still do. before that I was a sound guy at church.
What ever I do it seems to involve tech. I listen to “The Tech Guy”, “Security Now”, TWIT, TWIG, “FLOSS Weekly” and many other non twit ones
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Hello. Kernel_Panic here.
My interest in computers and other tech-related stuff started when I was an innocent little child watching ZDTV shows on local TV. The shows I remembered were Call for Help, The Screen Savers, and the other one that I forgot. It is a show about the latest video games in the market, and the host is a 3D-rendered red-haired woman - which I believe is a unique approach in presenting TV shows back then. Please forgive me if it is not a ZDTV show. 
My interest grew larger after we got our dial-up internet and started to surf the “World-Wide-Web” - a place back then where each web page is unique, and each article does not have a “Like” and “Share” button.
Fast forward, my interest still continues to grow. I “Distrohop” Linux OSes for a couple of years, learning concepts like “FLOSS” and “Kernels” along the way. I do Python for fun, and I hope I can use it for serious projects in the future.
After discovering TWiT, I always listen to the latest “All About Android”, “This Week in Tech”, “Triangulation” and of course, “The Tech Guy” episodes. I always have that nostalgic feel whenever I watch TTG.
Also…um. Hi, @Leo.
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I love Montreal! I was lucky enough to visit when I was younger. Welcome to the TWiT Community!
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Former member of TWiT Army thread.
I’m a semi-retired medical imaging engineer for a major OEM.
I reside in the Big (central) Valley of CA with my retired wife (a teacher).
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Hi team,
I’m an old time tech maven and computer technologist - been in technology since I was in the Marine Corps and was trained in Electronics Technology and RADAR maintenance. The first digital computer system, that I worked on was the DEC PDP-8. I have owned many computers over the years: Commodore VIC-20, 64, SX-64,128 - Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 3, 4, 4P, Tandy 1000, 2000, Compaq Luggable, Several DOS and Windows laptops, Apple IIe, Apple IIc, Mac SE, MANY MacBooks, MacBook Pros, iMacs, an eMac and 3 MacBook Airs. I spent the last 32 years working in the computer industry at HP and Apple - and I retired last week!!!
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My high school best friend had a Commodore 64, then a Apple, then a Macintosh through the 80’s. Bought a computer (HP Pavillion) with a roommate in 1995, only way we could afford it. I went all in with windows95, msn, (still part of my email address) internet etc. while my roommate remained just lightly interested. When MSNBC launched had my first media meeting with Leo as Dev Null on The Site. Later when I found out about the cable channel TechTV, I watched it constantly, becoming a fan of Leo and the whole crew. As I was becoming a gadget user, new computers, MP3 players, cell phones, (my first was a Sanyo!) TechTV informed my purchasing decisions, as well as developing a sense of community in my mind, a sense of belonging. Devastated when it changed, but continued to watch for the limited prurient male gaze oriented entertainment. I think I fount out about TWIT a few weeks late to hear the first episodes live, but have been watching and listening ever since. Watch TWIT, IOSToday, Macbreak Weekly religiously, some of the others less so. Have since migrated to Apple from windows, starting with iPod, then iPad, then iPhone, then a Mac mini, then a MacBook Air.
Leo is a hero. There are so many others like me who have come to an understanding of how tech can shape our lives, good and bad, due to what he and his crew do. Sure he is a human being, flawed like the rest of us, but a hero nonetheless. The network has something for everyone who has a head for tech, and I am thankful for it.
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Hi Everyone!
Been a fan since the TechTV days. It was definitely my motivation to become an IT professional. Right now my job mostly involves enterprise level security (ransomware protection, disaster recovery orchestration, etc). I’m normally floating around on IRC when not working on stuff. Woo for a TWIT forum!
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Hello Twits
I found Leo about 5 years ago and decided to go back and start listening to everything from the beginning which has been a great journey.
I actually have lots of time to listen as I listen while I’m working. I’m on a computer 8-10 hours a day for work so it helps pass the time a little faster and I get to learn because that is why we are all here isn’t it? Being a techie means life long learning for me. I work for a company doing some IT work but also refurbishing electronics that would normally be disposed of by large companies into the land fills and instead I get to see a lot of these devices have a second life through a little cleaning and preparing or sometimes even repairing and refurbishing them. So I get to see a little bit of everything which is awesome. Glad to be here and I hope to learn more and possibly help where I can!
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Welcome! You’ve managed to hear more shows than I’ll probably ever manage. 
Glad to hear you’re extending the life of tech gear. Most of my kit is refurbed ex-corporate stuff: it gives me excellent service and makes me feel good about keeping it out of landfill too.
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@Clayton Most of my stuff is too. Very seldom that I buy anything new anymore unless I have to have something particular that I couldn’t get otherwise. Glad to hear from people that this stuff benefits! 
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A big Hello from the south coast of England 
( aka the UK for those who only know us Brits under that umbrella ) .
I’ve been listening to the podcasts for years now and try to watch as many of the recorded videos as I can when I’m on my PC. I was always sad that I couldn’t join in the chatroom as our time zones are incompatible for a lot of things.
I mainly like TWiG, AAA, TWiT, SN and occasionally dip into the Windows Weekly show. Of course there are new shows to catch up on now…so my mp3 player will have to work overtime when I’m away from the house! I don’t stream data on a phone as I’m on a PAYG sim.
As a general rule, I am regarded as rather strange for being interested in tech and not in ‘traditional’ feminine things 
but I’ve got used to the glazed expressions when I answer the “what are you interested in?” conversational gambit. It’s a good thing that I’m actually an introvert and rarely leave my house and therefore it doesn’t bother me much if they think I’m odd.
So happy that Leo has set this up and I will thoroughly enjoy being part of this particular community 
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Computer science grad ~2007 have been in finance industry since about then. Favourite hosts:
- Leo
- Iain Thompson
- Greg Ferro
- Ant Pruitt
- Alex Lindsay
- The dude that calls Leo “Uncle leo”
- Andy Ihnatko
Frustrations:
Lots of mistakes with no errata.
Summary:
Really enjoy 3 or 4 of the shows
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Remember Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine, and Admiral Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral . One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. So you are in good company.
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Been listening to the TWiT (the network) since 2014, starting with Security Now episode #468. I wanted some decent, vendor-neutral news, originally as a supplement to, and then a replacement for, various vendor podcasts. Over time I gained respect for Steve Gibson’s technical analysis of security news and came to rely on it on a week-by-week basis.
I later started listening to TWiT (the show) (2017) and then This Week in Google (2018) and at times other shows, and the stream of recorded podcasts are now my regular breakfast listening.
I started with computers when I was 3 years old on a borrowed programmable calculator, and moved on to the Laser 210 and then the TI-99/4A. I ran a BBS when I was in my teens on an i486dx2/50-based system and started work in IT when I was in my early 20’s, soon after that developed a network/security specialisation and eventually a healthy strategy for avoiding management jobs and remaining in engineering.
This board reminds me a bit of the old BBS message boards - moderated, topic-bound and used by a fairly specific tech-savvy group of people. I hope it succeeds, as from my perspective, the modern mega social networks are a poor substitute for what existed 20-30 years ago.
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WOW I had a TI-99/4A too! I loved that computer as a kid. DO you remember the program cartridges? I use to sit for hours programing scrolling text. It would look like the beginning of Star Wars (1977) with the introduction crawl. In middle school we used the voice synthesizer all the time for the announcements in the morning. Welcome to the boards.
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I used to program - including the speech synthesizer - in BASIC, which was fun, though probably best suited to a 5 to 10 year old experimenting rather than anything else (as opposed to the 9900 assembler written games). I once put a speech synthesizer message on my parents’ answering machine, much to the confusion of everyone who called who had no idea what it was.
You can get a generic module now called the FlashROM99 which runs old cartridges from an SD card. I grabbed one plus an old console a few years ago out of nostalgia for the games, but rarely actually play them now I have the option again. Still, if you’re interested, all that stuff is still out there and not that difficult to get.
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I hear ya… Glad to hear there is still room for nostalgia if I chose to return. I am so comfortable in modron Apple land that I doubt I would go back to TI land. My childhood was fine but that doesn’t mean I want to go back 
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