Welcome!
I'm new here too, as I just signed up yesterday. I started with computers around the same age you did. Though I never got electricuted by any of them (I did only once in life by a shorted-out clothes dryer and THAT was an interesting experience!) I built the computer I currently use for everything. It's the second computer I've built from parts (this time brand new parts and some of the old and still-working-fine stuff from my previous machine).
Have fun in the forums.
