mining with a 7950 back in 2013 when diff was around 7M(for bitcoin), i was mining directly on a p2pool great reward, i remember 0.04 per day as a top reward
This is really low I thought it was higher because Bitcoin was new.. 0.04 BTC isn't that much :/
Also, my first BTC came from eh, faucet.. I know, faucets aside..
So my first BTC came from probably lottery on one small forum when I first heard about faucets.. the guy who promoted ( it was hotswap.co faucet ) did a lottery for one of his referrals and I won it, it was around 0.01 BTC, but I was really happy.. my first BTC if I don't count faucets