When building a PC will be laughed at...

[rantanamo]

20 years ago, people were building rigs. Still going strong today.

 

[Liquid]

20 years ago, people were building rigs. Still going strong today.

I started 17 years ago...I still remember my mom going into my room with the why are you breaking the computer.

I was like...Ma I read something at the library because our modem got messed up and I wanted to get online.

She walked out with the look on her face.

I was online 20 minutes later
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turns out our motherboard had a bad PCI slot

 

[NZA]

people used to build hot rods in the 50s...and they are still customizing cars in 2013

we will probably find reasons to keep doing this. especially the open source aspect of PC usage. appliances will never offer the freedom a certain amount of people want when it comes to usage, sharing, and ownership of media, for instance.