Most of us here never believed cryptocurrency will come this far when btc was launched. We would have rubbished any idea to join cryptocurrency at that time.Now some of us are a bit late but we are still better off than those who will inevitably join some years to come.So we have generational thinkers,kudos to those who started the fight earlier and brought the industry this far.
I was in college and I have heard about it in 2009 from reddit if I am not wrong but I wasn't interested in it at the time because I did not know what I could do with it and saw it more like world of warcraft golds than real money.
Moreover, I did not consider the value behind it. I have joined in 2012-2013ish and even than I used it as a payment gateaway and just got paid and used that money in fiat. Never really even consider holding my coins until last year, I just spend what I get even if its 50 dollars or 5 thousand dollars, I am just like that. It results with horrible days in life like today but it also results in great days of life when you do crazy stuff.