Without going into the motives behind joining Bitcointalk, I was wondering how peoples first point of contact with the forum was made. Now we may need to jog the memory here a bit, although Beginners & Help tends to have newer profiles around, making the memory lane easier to walk.
If I recall correctly, I reached the forum at the time when searching for information on Bitcoin. I probably performed a Google search for "Bitcoin forum" and made it here through one of the results that popped-up.
What was the reference driver (source, not motive) that drove you to Bitcointalk?
I also landed here the first time through the search engine, that time all the best information are on this forum because there were few media articles that support Bitcoin and Bitcointalk is ranking in the search engine for information about Bitcoin, I guess many of us old members landed here through Google.