When I was about 9 I never had anything to do, so I used our ancient 2" laptop that was an offcast from my fathers computing company (General Systems, ever heard of it) I used paint on that and was amazed to find it could play CDs, ahh when I was young(er) and foolish (yeah, im still stupid)
Then we bought a proper desktop that wasnt so old. I got into BASIC by advice of my uncle (who programs super computers) and I was hooked
Since then I have done HTML VB and am starting C++. I have my own laptop, have fixed it, have upgraded my origional desktop ( because my laptop wont turn on, im fixing that over the weekend)
Now im completely hooked and spend much of my free time on the computer