My PC Building History

I have had all these pictures forever and I recently came across them again and I realized I have been building computers and into all of this for such a long time now. I thought I would put it all together in a post for myself and that way I'll have an easy link to my full history of my own setups. It is cool to see how all of this technology changes over the years. You will see how computer cases have changed over the years. Going from the classic beige drives, unpainted insides, and cool LEDS to fully blacked out everything and all the parts look good together. There is only 1 computer missing from this and it was my first computer I got from my parents. I guess it doesn't belong here anyway because I didn't build it but that was the computer I started on (and upgraded) playing Age of Empires, Rainbow Six Rogue Spear, and other classic games.

I may have had another case in between these builds but this is finally when I decided to only care about my computer. This was my first awesome case I loved. It was an Aspire Navigator (company now called Apevia). It had a temperature monitor built in, drive cover/door, cool leds, good organization inside. There was even a table and chair next to me for when friends came to LAN with me and set their computer up next to me. This had to be around 2006-2007.

I eventually got a real monitor (which is no longer alive today). It was a Spectre 24in widescreen. Took advantage of dual monitors and always had music, Ventrilo, and XFire up on the secondary monitor.  I think I finished this build around 2008-2009. Notice the folding table still there haha.