I read an articel in german online magazin Spiegel last year: money out of the socket
so the article told about the guy below, i guess...
Tell us the story about how you found out about bitcoins and what got you interested in it.
May 2010: I think it was through slashdot. I didn't read satoshis paper, merely installed the client and left it churn on my desktop not knowing where to get any bitcoins and frankly not caring much either, wondering why no bitcoins were being generated.
2 days later I need the laptop for something unrelated, see the client still at "BTC 0.00". Other things on my mind, I exit the client, thinking something like "well, this is obviously broken, there should be at least 0.01 BTC or something. Screw that, maybe I'll try again later, this laptop is kinda warm, let's turn this bitcoin client off for now". What a sad day!
Only in January 2011, when again through slashdot, I see "bitcoin" for the second time, only this time, I install no client, but read the paper instead. 15 minutes later I'm all energized, praising satoshis genius, babbling on to my perplexed girlfriend about distributed proof-of-work-based timekeeping, the blockchain and whatnot, trying to explain that this could shake the world for good! I mine my first bitcents using 2 crappy onboard nvidia cards, put old dollar bills I had left over from vacations into an evelope and send it to canada... 2 weeks later I got my 5970 miner all set up and all my friends think I've gone crazy for good this time.