This thread is awesome
My story is sort of a mix between Android's and Cell's. It all started with the famous "X's Adventures in Minecraft", back when the game was most certainly alpha. I brought up the game with my brother, and he said that he'd been playing since the middle of indev. I found enough money to buy an account, back when it was like $5, and because I could put in the username 'doggypwn'. No idea why. Afterwards, and after a little digging into the minecraft site, I found out that infdev was much more stable than indev, and switched to it a few months before indev was outmoded. I played minecraft all the time, building huge castles and things in singleplayer, but the novelty started to wear off. Every time there was an update, I'd integrate new stuff into my creations and test new features (though redstone still vexes me to this day), and around the release of minecraft multiplayer, I noticed X slowed the progression of his let's play a bit, building up the the end after he got bored. That just made me want to go experience the game more for myself, and so I did when multiplayer finally came out. I joined a server the day after the update was released, and I was not exactly satisfied, so I went back to singleplayer for a while. After a couple major updates I tried my hand at playing with other people again, and found a nice server with a small community. I soon learned that half of them were very annoying, and the other half griefers/dupers. I left that server, and was informed about a week later that I was banned by an admin there for supposedly duplicating items, and felt no need to try and argue. I looked for a good server for ages, and eventually stopped on the minecraft forums. I looked around in server advertisements for at least an hour, and eventually found the old Kiwike thread, where I posted a whitelist application. Just to see if I had been whitelisted, as it had been a few days since I posted my app, I put in the server IP and found a temp server whose purpose I honestly don't remember, most likely switching over from hMod to Bukkit. And the rest is more or less history.
