Summer of 2000. My cousin got me into to the game he was already playing and got me all hyped up about it.
I started as a half elf druid in surefall glade cause kelethin was way too laggy.
We kept playing up to gates of discord , but eventually left for all the other mmos that were coming out around then. Coh, ffonline, eq2, and eventually wow, where I got seriously hooked until I finally burned out during MoP.
The. I spent a long time with no MMOs, and eventually went back to EQ during EOK, as a f2p and dinked around there till that first velious expansion, but never did much other than solo, which gave me a craving for classic EQ, where I tried various classic servers. P99 was "too" classic for me, but I found one that was locked to pop at the time and ended finally raiding and clearing PoTime, in era. Which was extremely satisfying to me, and a lot of fun. But keeping up with raising was too tie consuming so I once again quit.
Now I'm back to messing around on live 1 to 3 boxing just for fun. With no goals in mind , don't even care about hitting max level just want to go see some of the places I haven't been through all the expansions I've missed.