October 2011. I had a lot of fun in the evenings playing on a close friend's classic build server, though he only ran it during the evenings so I kind of had the craving for more.
One day at work when looking up random articles on a Minecraft wiki, one of them mentioned something about a past version of the game having a lava/water survival mode on it. I thought that seemed pretty cool and might challenge my reflexes, so I had a look at Minecraft.net that night to see if there were any such servers online.
And down the list, I saw something labelled "TheOnes New Lava Survival TEST". I clicked on it, and the next thing I knew was that I ended up in a round with the lava coming in 2 minutes, so I scrambled up to the top of the map and made a glass cocoon around myself. But in the process that triggered the first thing someone ever said to me:
"wooffus gtfo"
At that moment, I knew I was going to like it here.