What are you drinking right now?

Me? They didn’t buy me a computer.
My dad had a computer even before I was born, and as a kid I only played video games. Very rarely.
And that went on until third grade, after which I started playing games a LOT (though I still went outside a lot back then too). For third grade, you could say I was addicted to GTA: Vice City — I played that game nonstop. My parents kept setting a BIOS password, and I’d guess it or peek at it and play while they didn’t know. Then I’d get caught, get scolded, and guess the new password :D That went on for a few years. One year I practically lived on a single password, and my parents had no clue (or pretended not to). I’d sit and play GTA too. By the way, that was a game my parents had forbidden because of the violence (and what was I doing in it? I barely even did missions, just drove around with cheats and killed people).
But that’s all nonsense — back then I still read books, went out, and did other stuff. It all started then, then, then... When I registered on HeroesWorld!
I hadn’t used the internet much before. We’d had internet for about six months (well, no, maybe a year and a half. I don’t remember) — there was internet before too, but it was janky, through a phone line, and you had to pay for time. I loved playing Heroes and often visited that site for info. Then I thought — why not register, since I’m already here? So I registered. And started posting everywhere and all that.
The gaming addiction, of course, didn’t appear right away, not at all right away — I don’t know when I became addicted to the internet, but at some point I did. Though I can’t even recall what I used to do. Sit on HeroesWorld and in ICQ? I didn’t hang out anywhere else, I didn’t even Google anything, dunno overall. Now I’m here, and there, and registered on VKontakte (I used to consider that place a den of evil, ololo I’d never ever in my life register on that devilish site, oh no, oh no, oh no, I’ll be above that — oh, there’s a grooving group there? But I actually want to learn to groove, god, how lucky I am, hurray for VKontakte, good that you exist, I’ll go register. But only without friends, I’ll just add my sister! And that friend too. And this other friend. I’ll go post a browser screenshot on HeroesWorld with a VKontakte tab open and say I accidentally exposed myself, and they’ll add me as a friend and read my fake rants on my wall about how careless I am and that I didn’t want everyone adding me all the time). But a year ago, Siver had a psycho-talk with me, after which I deleted every last friend and didn’t add anyone else. Right away my VKontakte addiction significantly decreased, but there’s still no benefit — I started spending more time on HeroesWorld, in ICQ, Skype, etc. And recently I did add a few close friends and my sister; the rest can go to hell.

Anyway, I got so addicted that I don’t even remember when exactly (or roughly) it started.

Oh yeah, here

And when did your parents buy you a computer?

I didn’t finish answering. At first I played on my parents’ computer or my sister’s (but not for long on my sister’s — she took it to Arkhangelsk when she left to study) and used the internet (when I had my sister’s computer, I wasn’t online yet), but then they bought themselves a new computer (they still have it), and they gave me the old one (I still have it :D well, actually, only the case and old hard drive remain, because I’ve replaced everything else over the time I’ve had it, and I also bought a new hard drive (but the old one’s still there)). I think they bought it when I was in eighth grade (I don’t remember). Or maybe seventh. And from then on, finally freedom and anarchy, because I had my own computer to do whatever I wanted with. And no more nagging about something not working, or me installing the wrong programs, or changing the wallpaper to some ugly orc, etc. Though my dad once set up parental controls so I wouldn’t sit too long, but I cracked it in a couple of days (just installed a keylogger, lol) and still used the PC without anyone knowing. Yeah, that was at the end of eighth grade. And the new PC was likely given in the beginning of eighth grade. (For a school kid like me, it’s easier to count by grades. Since a lot of memories are tied to school. For reference: start of 8th grade = September 2008).
When I got my own computer, I was already a hardcore gamer (though I still played games a lot more). And now I mostly play during breaks and holidays