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'''Philip Joseph Adams '''(born 21st April 1994)''', '''better known as Philip Adams, is an Australian host, director and preparer of operating systems for the [https://www.youtube.com/OSFirstTimer OSFirstTimer YouTube Channel.] He is also the creator of the time-travel indie hacking game '''Histacom''' and the make your own OS game '''ShiftOS'''. He is currently living with his family: his mum '''Diana Adams''',''' '''his dad''' Ben Adams''' and his little sister '''Jasmine Adams'''. |
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==Early life== |
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<p style="text-align: center;">[[File:0c2cf3536cbb90cd1041f46d92bd697d.jpg|thumb|300px|Philip as seen from the intro to the OSFirstTimer show.]]He first started liking computers when he was at school one day in 2001 at the age of 7. He played Math Blaster: In Search of Spot'' ''during'' ''every maths lesson. Since he only had half an hour to finish it, he barely finished the game. In the game, there was a guy in a green spacesuit called Blasternaut with a blue floating robot friend called Spot. The ship's hyperdrive failed, leaving them stranded in space. While Spot fixed the ship, a three-eyed yellow alien in a red UFO abducted him, stopping him from fixing the ship. Then players had to answer 5 maths sums correctly to fill the tractor beam, which would give you 5 shots to shoot 5 pieces of garbage. When enough garbage was collected, you had to match up math equations to the correct answers to convert the garbage into fuel. When you collected enough fuel, you would visit the alien's home planet. Unlike earlier levels, you didn't need to type in math equations. Instead, you had to make sure the number on your belly was between the numbers on each side of the platform. If the number on your belly was greater or smaller than those on the platforms, you would be kicked out. When you reached the top of the cave, you met with the same three-eyed yellow alien in a red UFO you met before. To defeat it, you had to look at the question on the red UFO and fly yourself to the answer while avoiding flying garbage. If you got enough answers correct, the red UFO was destroyed & you would save Spot before the ship detonated in 2 seconds. You were then presented with a printable certificate. If it was over the year 2000, it would show the first 2 digits as 19 instead of 20 due to the Y2K bug. In the video (he actually played the game), it said Philip earned a certificate on Thursday, April 18th, 1913, even though he earned it on Thursday, April 18th, 2013. |
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His exploration into operating systems began when he loved Math Blaster: In Search of Spot so much that he asked for a computer to play ''Math Blaster: In Search of Spot ''on. He and his mum arrived at a computer store and bought a modern, but not too expensive computer with Windows XP pre installed on it when it was just released in Australia (it is unknown whether it was Professional or Home Edition). They also looked for the math game Philip wanted, but the store didn't have it. However, the store had several other educational games that were similar, but 95% of them were only compatible with Windows 95 or Windows 98. The lady at the store failed to mention that the games could run on Windows XP, even though they were intended for an earlier version of Windows. This engraved the words Windows XP into his mind. He originally hated Windows XP, but his mum told him that the games could run on Windows XP, even though they were intended for Windows 95 or Windows 98. They bought a game or two but he got so bored of them he wanted to see what else his computer could do. He had no access to the internet. So, for several years he explored Windows XP and what it could do, sparking his major interest in computers. However, after 6 years, his computer kept crashing, gave him a Blue Screen Of Death and failed to boot. He then bought a new PC on the day Windows Vista was launched in Australia. He explored Vista too, but not as much as XP. He also then got the internet, and used it to do things such as play RuneScape online. He then found out about a program called Virtual PC and downloaded it on his computer along with a copy of Windows 95. He kept downloading operating systems making several virtual machines running several versions of Microsoft Windows, and did YouTube videos on them. He also became interested in the development of Windows and always stayed up-to-date on what Microsoft had introduced in terms of Windows. When he was 12, he became interested in making time lapses, and posted them on his 12padams Youtube Channel, but deleted them after a while because the channel never became popular. At that time he also created a channel called "21padams", but he only uploaded one video, where he reacted to "Two Girls, One Cup". He then started another channel, I2padams, which was similar to 12padams, but with tutorials he had to do in school, called Up to Date (apparently 'terrible') along with all of his Astral Projection videos and other random stuff, like his sister playing Minecraft and how to run CodeLink on an iPad 2. He also advertised Histacom, a hacking game where you start in Windows 95, and eventually upgrade to Windows XP in 2002, where there is someone destroying the internet, and you have to go back to the past to fix the future. Development on Histacom stopped sometime in 2014, and was picked up about a month ago by several members of ShiftOS forum.</p>One day, he learnt about RSI in school, and a little while later, he got it. For a while, he stayed away from the computer as it hurt his fingers and wrote a couple of books, until he read an article online about TMS, a possible cure for RSI. He then made Let's Plays on a new YouTube channel called AstralPhaser. On this channel he played games such as Minecraft but wanted to try new games and couldn't because he hadn't finished the old ones first.</p> |
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<p style="text-align: center;">He eventually became bored with the games and since he had cured RSI, he became interested in Windows 8 development, and when it came out, he had his mum try it, alas, the OSFirstTimer channel began. The channel's main aim is for his mum to try and find replacements for Windows 8. Now, they do it for fun, as his mum now has a Windows 8 laptop to replace her old Toshiba Windows XP one. They used the (what they called the "shaky cam") method, until the Windows 95 video, where they started to use a green screen to show the operating system and Diana/Ben. On May 17, 2014, he started to make "Dad Tries Out" videos. On OSFirstTimer they also do tutorials, unboxings, and comment videos. A month later, he had also made a channel called TerrifiedMum, where his mom plays scary games.</p> |
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<p style="text-align: center;">Philip made a channel in early 2014 called ArchLinuxAdventures, where he started in a terminal in Arch Linux and eventually evolved it by downloading the LXDE desktop environment, Compiz, and many more compatible programs. It was originally meant to have around 512 episodes, but it only had 15, (ep. 0-14) as it was hard enough to focus on his OSFT channel, and Philip wanted to work on ShiftOS more.</p> |
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<p style="text-align: center;">He had a website on freeforums for the OSFT channel, but constant attacks from MalwareUp starting in February 2014 caused him to give the forum away in April. Currently the forum is an archive. The successor of this forum currently is at http://tech-talk.ml. </p> |
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<p style="text-align: center;">Philip worked on ShiftOS, a game where you start with just a terminal and evolve it into a fully-functional graphical interface (like ArchLinux), however he has stepped down from its development, and now two new people are admins and developing ShiftOS.</p> |
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<p style="text-align: center;">In late 2014, he created a YouTube channel called [http://osfirsttimer.wikia.com/wiki/OSFT_Historic_VLogs "OSFT Historic Vlogs"], where he publishes old and new, non-OSFirstTimer related videos such as videos from his childhood and parts of his daily life nowadays or a few years ago.</p> |
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<p style="text-align: center;">As of early 2015, he has 8 channels - 21padams, I2padams, AstralPhaser, OSFirstTimer, TerrifiedMum, ArchLinuxAdventures, ShiftOS and OSFT Historic Vlogs, but 9 if you include his deleted 12padams channel. Only his OSFirstTimer, TerrifiedMum, AstralPhaser and OSFT Historic Vlogs channels are currently active.</p> |
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NONE OF THIS IS TRUE :D NICE KNOWING YA!