I'm a swiss guy born in 1983. I'm fascinated early on technology and computers and had (as I earned my own money) soon assembled several computers themselves from selected items.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I let SETI run on multiple computers at home, so they have to do something meaningful during the idle time.
About extraterrestrial life ... I'm pretty sure it's there somewhere Outside.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.