In-Depth Series: How I got into tech

Number of episodes: 62
Open/closed: open
Date of earliest show: 2009-04-30
Date of latest show: 2022-10-31
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Started by monsterb, this series invites people to share with us how they found Linux. It has become traditional for first time hosts to share with us their journey to Linux. Indeed it has morphed to be way to share your journey in tech right up to your first contribution to HPR.

hpr3716 :: How I got in to Tech hosted by Lurking Prion

Released: 2022-10-31. Duration: 00:08:51. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: career,technology.
My journey in to technology
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hpr3669 :: My First Podcast: My Journey into the Computer World hosted by Hipernike

Released: 2022-08-25. Duration: 00:20:07. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux, programming, cibersecurity, robotics, hardware.
How I was introduced into computers, Linux, robotics, programming, cibersecurity and more...
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hpr3663 :: How I got into Tech hosted by Stache_AF

Released: 2022-08-17. Duration: 00:05:58. Flag: Clean.
Tags: tech, personal history, introductions.
Follow-up episode about how I got into tech
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hpr3577 :: Hello and how I got into tech hosted by Sarah

Released: 2022-04-19. Duration: 00:07:24. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: intro, linux.
Hi, I'm Sarah and this is how I got into Tech
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hpr2968 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 3 hosted by Dave Morriss

Released: 2019-12-18. Duration: 00:40:41. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: video recorder,Skinner box,logic gate,digitiser,Dobbie McInnes,Data General,teletype,Cyber-72,APL,Si.
Part 3 of my personal story of experiences with computers
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hpr2953 :: How I got started in Linux hosted by Archer72

Released: 2019-11-27. Duration: 00:04:36. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Linux, FreeBSD, Computers.
How I start in Linux, computing, and Free Software
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hpr2841 :: How I got into Linux (and then some...) hosted by Christopher M. Hobbs

Released: 2019-06-24. Duration: 00:31:04. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux, intro, story, discourse, bsd.
A response to the request for "how i got into linux" and a little of my history with Linux/BSD
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hpr2832 :: How I got started in Linux hosted by Shannon Wright

Released: 2019-06-11. Duration: 00:02:48. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux, introduction.
This is a very brief introduction on what got me into using Linux.
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hpr2088 :: How my wife's grandma got me into linux. hosted by knightwise

Released: 2016-08-03. Duration: 00:33:21. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux, ubuntu, suse, mandriva.
Knightwise tells us how his wife's 80 year old grandmother got him into Linux.
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hpr2051 :: My Linux Journey hosted by Tony Hughes AKA TonyH1212

Released: 2016-06-13. Duration: 00:11:49. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Windows 3.1,Windows 95,Windows 98,Xubuntu,Windows XP,Freespire,Ubuntu,LibreOffice,Linux Mint.
This is a short show where I talk about how I started to use Linux
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hpr2040 :: Why I Use Linux hosted by matthew

Released: 2016-05-27. Duration: 00:05:00. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux, Vim, git, grep, Filezilla, LAMP stack, Meteor, Firefox, Chromium.
A short description of why someone would stumble onto Linux and not want to leave.
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hpr1972 :: How I got into Linux hosted by m1rr0r5h4d35

Released: 2016-02-23. Duration: 00:20:24. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Sony tape recorder,RedHat Linux,Enlightenment E16,dial-up,Mandrake,Debian,Icepack Linux,Slackware,Linux Mint,CrunchBang,OpenBSD.
My first podcast. Me rambling about how I got into Linux.
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hpr1970 :: How I got started with Linux hosted by swift110

Released: 2016-02-19. Duration: 00:27:45. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux.
I talk at length about how I got started with Linux
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hpr1967 :: How I saw the Linux Light at the end of the Windows tunnel hosted by Nacho Jordi

Released: 2016-02-16. Duration: 00:14:19. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Linux, Beginners, Computing history, Gaming.
My personal story of discovery of Linux
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hpr1881 :: My road to Linux hosted by clacke

Released: 2015-10-19. Duration: 00:15:12. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Urecord,Slirp,Amiga,turbolinux,guix.
I'm so old I actually installed Watchtower on an Amiga and I review 22 years of Linux distributions
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hpr1841 :: My way into Linux hosted by folky

Released: 2015-08-24. Duration: 00:09:36. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: espeak,East Germany,punched cards,Commodore 64,Atari Mega ST,Macintosh,iMAC,MAC OS,LaTex,Debian,Ubuntu,Mint,Bodhi,ArchBang.
From punch cards to Manjaro
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hpr1811 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 2 hosted by Dave Morriss

Released: 2015-07-13. Duration: 00:42:38. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: computer,programming,punched card,paper tape,teletype,graph plotter,Seymour Cray,CDC,Control Data Corporation,CDC 7600,Cray-1,ICL,ALGOL 60,FORTRAN,Pascal.
Part 2 of my personal story of experiences with computers
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hpr1751 :: How I got into Linux hosted by Steve Bickle

Released: 2015-04-20. Duration: 00:18:34. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Crunchbang.
How I got into linux, LFS and where I use Linux now.
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hpr1664 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 1 hosted by Dave Morriss

Released: 2014-12-18. Duration: 00:26:54. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: computer,mainframe,programming,punched card,paper tape,teletype,graph plotter,ALGOL 60.
I've been using computers for more than 40 years. This is part 1 of my story
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hpr1634 :: How I got into Linux hosted by pyrrhic

Released: 2014-11-06. Duration: 00:17:33. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Sansa Clip,Audacity.
How I discovered Linux
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hpr1604 :: How I Got Into Linux hosted by cjm

Released: 2014-09-25. Duration: 00:18:16. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: windows,Ubuntu,Puppy,Crunchbang,Arch.
I sum up my experience with linux from 0 to 1!
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hpr1576 :: How I got into Linux hosted by Inscius

Released: 2014-08-18. Duration: 00:27:54. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Linux, FLOSS, Mac.
This is my story about how I got into computers, computing and GNU/Linux.
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hpr1553 :: TuxJam 33.333 - How we got into Linux hosted by Andrew Conway

Released: 2014-07-16. Duration: 01:07:57. Flag: Clean.
Tags: FOSS,software,creative commons,music.
Kevie and Andrew release TuxJam episode 33 1/3 as an exclusive to HPR on how they got into Linux
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hpr1547 :: My Linux Experience Birthday Special hosted by David Whitman

Released: 2014-07-08. Duration: 00:15:22. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: birthday,Atari,Macintosh Classic,Ubuntu,Mint.
The cake is not a lie, I tell how I got into Linux and what my favorite Birthday Cake is.
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hpr1541 :: How I Came To Linux hosted by Claudio Miranda

Released: 2014-06-30. Duration: 00:36:19. Flag: Clean.
Tags: BASIC,Mattel Aquarius,Apple IIe,Macintosh,RedHat,SUSE,Mandrake,Slackware.
ClaudioM talks about how he came to computers and to Linux
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hpr1499 :: How I Got Into Computers hosted by Charles in NJ

Released: 2014-05-01. Duration: 00:59:57. Flag: Clean.
Tags: DEC,PDP-11/20,ASR-33,RSTS-11,BASIC,FORTRAN,Pascal,VAX-11/780,Ultrix,Linux,Ubuntu,Gentoo,Slackware.
linux, computing, minicomputers, Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, Basic
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hpr1487 :: How I Found Linux hosted by x1101

Released: 2014-04-15. Duration: 00:06:16. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux.
New host x1101 describes how he got into Linux
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hpr1472 :: How I Found Linux hosted by Curtis Adkins (CPrompt^)

Released: 2014-03-25. Duration: 00:13:59. Flag: Clean.
Tags: Mandrake,Mandriva,OpenMandriva,Slackware,Debian,Ubuntu.
CPrompt^ goes into how he found linux and never looked back...
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hpr1402 :: How I Started Using Linux and Free and Open Source Software hosted by Thaj Sara

Released: 2013-12-17. Duration: 00:10:48. Flag: Clean.
Tags: linux,open source.
My first contribution to HPR: how I came to use Linux and Free/Open Source software
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hpr1384 :: How I Got Into Linux and OSS hosted by Keith Murray

Released: 2013-11-21. Duration: 00:11:03. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: "Red Hat",Audacity,Notepad++,Windows7,Ubuntu.
New HPR podcaster Keith Murray shares how he came to the Linux and OSS world.
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hpr1381 :: How We Found Linux hosted by Kevin Wisher

Released: 2013-11-18. Duration: 00:57:12. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: TRS-80,"IBM portable PC",modem,"Texas Instruments TI-99/4A","Fedora Core",Freespire,"Linux Mint",Manjaro,Debian,MythTV.
Kevin Wisher and Honkey Magoo each discuss their journey to Linux
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hpr1333 :: Introduction / How I Got Into Linux hosted by Matt McGraw (g33kdad)

Released: 2013-09-11. Duration: 00:16:39. Flag: Clean.
Tags: "Mac Classic II",FreeBSD,Ubuntu.
A first show from a new host describing their journey to Linux
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hpr1320 :: How I got into Linux hosted by jrobb

Released: 2013-08-23. Duration: 00:06:54. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Pascal,RedHat,Ubuntu,Arch,Debian,PHP,MySQL.
jrobb gives a short show about how he got into Linux and programming
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hpr1318 :: How I found Linux hosted by Sunzofman1

Released: 2013-08-21. Duration: 00:18:35. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: "computer history".
Sunzofman1's journey to Linux
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hpr1223 :: How I got into linux hosted by Jezra

Released: 2013-04-10. Duration: 00:11:59. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Windows,"Corel Linux","Red Hat Linux",Ubuntu,Debian,Arch,Python,jedit,geany.
From Windows to Arch with a few other Linux versions along the way
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hpr1133 :: How I got in to Linux hosted by Dick Thomas

Released: 2012-12-05. Duration: 00:17:13. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: ZX Spectrum,Corel Linux,Debian,Gentoo,Ubuntu .
Another contributor describes their Linux journey
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hpr1129 :: How I got into Linux hosted by aparanoidshell

Released: 2012-11-29. Duration: 00:09:47. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Windows XP,Ubuntu,Unity,Debian,Gnome,CrunchBang .
Another contributor describes their Linux journey
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hpr1007 :: My Linux Adventure, Pt. 2 hosted by Bob Wooden

Released: 2012-06-11. Duration: 00:26:06. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux,knoppix,kde,BSA,OpenOffice,Firefox,Thunderbird,Samba,Ubuntu,SuSE,OpenSuSE,Debian.
The second part of Bob Wooden's Linux journey
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hpr0937 :: How I started with linux hosted by riddlebox

Released: 2012-03-05. Duration: 00:09:08. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux.
Riddlebox talks of his journey to Linux
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hpr0928 :: My Linux Adventure, Pt. 1 hosted by Bob Wooden

Released: 2012-02-22. Duration: 00:31:03. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux,redhat,fedora,suse,open suse,ltsp,nfs,dhcp.
The first part of Bob Wooden's Linux journey
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hpr0918 :: How I Started with Linux Part 2 hosted by Frank Bell

Released: 2012-02-07. Duration: 00:15:32. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux,slackware,debian,samba,dns.
Frank Bell continues the story of his journey to Linux
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hpr0905 :: Akranis: How I got into Linux hosted by Akranis

Released: 2012-01-19. Duration: 00:05:49. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Smoothwall,Puppy Linux,Ubuntu,Arch,Debian,Bash,Bashpodder.
An introductory show from a new host
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hpr0901 :: Ahuka: Intro and How I Got Into Linux hosted by Ahuka

Released: 2012-01-16. Duration: 00:30:34. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: mainframe,punched card,teletype,Sinclair ZX80,PC XT,DOS,Linux,KDE.
An introduction from a new host
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hpr0877 :: Welcome Frank Bell hosted by Frank Bell

Released: 2011-12-12. Duration: 00:17:34. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux,slackware.
Frank Bell begins the story of his journey to Linux
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hpr0797 :: How I got into linux hosted by Mike Hingley

Released: 2011-08-22. Duration: 00:04:47. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Ubuntu.
Mike Hingley's first HPR episode where he describes how he got into Linux
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hpr0752 :: My Path to Linux: Knoppix hosted by MrGadgets

Released: 2011-06-20. Duration: 00:12:27. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Knoppix,"live CD",microdrive,"compact flash".
Another part of Mr Gadgets' journey to his daily use of Linux
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hpr0750 :: My path to Linux hosted by NewAgeTechnoHippie

Released: 2011-06-16. Duration: 00:08:52. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: "Redhat Linux",LILO,Fedora,"Arch Linux",Maemo,"Nokia N900".
In his first episode NewAgeTechnoHippie describes his Linux journey
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hpr0742 :: How I Got Into Linux hosted by Dave

Released: 2011-06-06. Duration: 00:07:49. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Interview,"PC repair","Linux Mint",Mumble.
Ken Fallon interviews Dave over Mumble about his use of Linux
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hpr0726 :: Journey to Linux hosted by MrGadgets

Released: 2011-05-15. Duration: 00:19:37. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux,O/S 2 Warp.
Continuing Mr Gadgets' journey to Linux
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hpr0718 :: How I got into Linux hosted by Brotherred

Released: 2011-05-04. Duration: 00:07:45. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux.
Brotherred explains how his journey to Linux started with a local Sports radio show
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hpr0703 :: My Computer History hosted by Bob Evans

Released: 2011-04-13. Duration: 00:04:52. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: computing history,vintage hardware,nelf.
My Computer History
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hpr0698 :: How I Found Linux hosted by code.cruncher

Released: 2011-04-06. Duration: 00:22:37. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: development,"dual boot",distrohopping,linux.
code.cruncher explains where they began in computing, and how they found Linux
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hpr0696 :: MrGadgets Path toward Linux hosted by MrGadgets

Released: 2011-04-04. Duration: 00:13:43. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: 6502,Z80,6800,"Moog Synthesizer","Commodore PET","TRS-80 Color Computer",KIM-1.
Mr Gadgets talks about how he got to Linux
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hpr0671 :: How I Found Linux hosted by dodddummy

Released: 2011-02-28. Duration: 00:24:00. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: mainframe,linux,distrohopping.
dodddummy's journey to Linux, from mainframes to home computers
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hpr0647 :: How I Got Into Linux hosted by brother mouse

Released: 2011-01-25. Duration: 00:27:08. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux.
brother mouse relates his journey to Linux
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hpr0605 :: How I found Linux hosted by Johninsc

Released: 2010-11-26. Duration: 00:10:45. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Linux.
Johninsc describes how he found Linux
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hpr0410 :: How I found Linux Part 6 hosted by monsterb

Released: 2009-07-27. Duration: 00:28:06. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Samba,Suse,Gentoo.
Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users
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hpr0376 :: How I Found Linux 005 hosted by monsterb

Released: 2009-06-09. Duration: 00:29:01. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: mainframe,Redhat,Ubuntu,Puppy Linux,Chess Griffin.
Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users
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hpr0370 :: How I Found Linux 004 hosted by monsterb

Released: 2009-06-01. Duration: 00:29:15. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Fedora,KDE,Graphic art,Redhat,Slackware,Debian,Library computers.
Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users
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hpr0360 :: How I found Linux 3 hosted by monsterb

Released: 2009-05-19. Duration: 00:27:24. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: linux.
Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users
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hpr0350 :: How I found Linux 002 hosted by monsterb

Released: 2009-05-05. Duration: 00:28:14. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Linux.
Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users
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hpr0348 :: How I Found Linux 001 hosted by monsterb

Released: 2009-04-30. Duration: 00:29:54. Flag: Explicit.
Tags: Linux.
Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users
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