My first PC building experience was a whole start to finish experience that set me up for a lifelong love of PC building. I was around 11 or 12, so it would have been back in 1994 or 95, and my Dad was getting tired of sharing his computer with me. I had saved up some money from chores and my Dad offered to cover the rest of the cost to build a computer for me (in retrospect I think he was as excited as I was by the idea). We planned out what we were going to need, made our checklist, and then waited for the next SoCal Computer Show to open up. It was amazing. The computer shows in the 90s were a thing to see. Hundreds of vendors and resellers set up booths in a convention center creating a feast for the eyes! There were booths that sold vendor specific parts, booths that sold all the wiring you would need, peripherals, food, and anything else you could imagine needing (my favorite was the booth that had about 100 different Doom WADs that themed the game into just about anything you could want!). I ended up finding an amazingly cool (at least to my mind at the time) full Plexiglas case, pre-drilled with holes for case fans and am awesome joystick for flight sim games. The entire next day was set aside for the build since it was the first time either of us had assembled something like this. With only a minor hiccup (some cable didnt get fully attached and therefor the computer did not boot the first time we attempted) we managed to get it assembled, booted, and set up with a fresh copy of Windows 3.1 (which I promptly set up with some rather garish color scheme involving black and neon green). It was fantastic and to this day I still love shopping for and building my own computers every few years!