66yrs, 9mo, 26d and counting.
Lucky enough for have lived through so many technology improvements, learn from them and fully use them. My first degree earned with the help of a Faber Castell sliding rule. BTW, looking for one for my collection. Second degree with the help of pocket calculators. My first one was the HP35. Can you imagine? US$ 300 and ONE memory. Then the first programmable HP65. My first real computer: Apple IIc + a dotmatrix printer. US$ 3000. A bargain at that time in 1984. In the Apple IIc I started with FS1 when developed by SubLogic before being swallowed by Microsoft. Then the 286, 386, 486, Pentiums and all the stuff we use today. FS2, FS3, FS4 (the first one that allowed us to build sceneries), FS5a, FS6, FS2000 Professional, FS9, FSX (got it from the very beginning but not installed yet).
Thousand of hours flying alone. Then FS Traffic. Then Compuserve arrived. Then Internet on dialup connection. Finally Internet 24 hrs. Then flying online. A long but a very challenging and rewarding way. My only regret? Not having the US$ 20 million to go to the outter space.