Tech Olive

Before Tech Olive, Tim and I were just regular computer illiterate idiots (hell, we still are), but we had to start somewhere in order to learn and gain knowledge about how computers and technology worked. So, where did we start? We ended up starting a little computer “business” and called it CT Customs (CT = Craig and Tim). It ultimately failed epically before it even began, but we didn’t care.

The first thing we did was pool together all the money we had from our piggy banks, which was a little over $500, and built our first computer ever. The rig consisted of an AMD Athlon 64 3400, 1GB of DDR400 RAM, Nvidia GeForce FX 5500, a 250GB SATA hard drive, DVD burner, and Windows XP Home Edition.

For more photos of the build, head here.

Around that same time, I began working on a website for CT Customs. You can see the main page above and some more screenshots further down. On top of building this computer, we decided to offer our amazing PC services at dirt cheap prices.

In the end, we never gained a single customer and weren’t able to sell the computer we built, so we ended up just splitting the parts and building our own PCs from that.

Sure, the whole project was a complete failure, but we actually learned a lot along the way, which is all that matters!