I didnt start playing until 2008.
I just got out of prison and didnt have a lot of money and was looking for something to do to pass the time while I was on probation. A friend of mine told me about this free game called "enemy territory" that had free servers to play on. I joined Bunker 1 and spent the first year hardly able to make it out of spawn.
Several years later and off of probation, I still love the game..