I'm not sure I've ever consciously thought of Theymos as an OG bitcoiner (perhaps because I know so little about him). Yes, I am aware of the history of his association with bitcointalk and if you'd asked me if he was a super-early adopter of bitcoin I would have answered "yes" with no hesitation, but that knowledge has apparently just lurked in my subconscious because seeing that post about him mining
BTC with an Intel CPU sort of made me say
wow....
Probably yes, mentioning that time around 2010 owning a computer is a lot considering it's expensive, at least in my place when you have a computer and internet connection, mean you have the resources and money.
LOL, no! Owning a personal computer 12 years ago was actually much more common than you suggest.
[/quote]Kids these days, eh? Twelve years ago to me seems like yesterday when I'm thinking back on what I was doing at the time--but oddly, when I think about it in the context of bitcoin it seems like an eternity. But by the year 2002-02 it seemed like a lot of people I knew owned at least a desktop PC, and I live in the US. I definitely knew quite a few folks who didn't. By 2010? Yeah, if you didn't own a PC or laptop, you still had some type of mobile device to connect to the internet with.
By the way, how powerful was that Pentium for its time? Was it considered a high-end CPU? I plead ignorance as to Intel's offerings, especially for processors that old. And how long was it until faucets started popping up? I remember seeing one archived from 2011 or so that gave away what would be a massive amount of bitcoin today. That's how a lot of people got their start with bitcoin, and it's too bad that they've all but disappeared.