I thought alt-coins had no future when I first read about litecoin. a friend was mining ltc and had several thousand coins, now has enough to put a deposit on a house :*(
so im now mining everything hehe
I was so stupid too... I heard of BTC at least 3 years ago, and I just ignored it

I remember seeing it jump up to $27 very suddenly and thinking I should do something about that. Then I remember watching it every day as it went up to $226 and thinking to myself, OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! And that was just this year. (grin)