Like around 2011 to 2015? Before it became available on major exchanges?
Well in my country we already had the wallet where you can use your debit or credit card to buy bitcoin since they will give you the account where you can deposit the money and wait for 12 hours before you can received your bitcoin , but some how i can earn bitcoin from airdrops where i can get them for free and of course with the help of this forum you can learn everything from here not just to earn bitcoin from the campaign but to learn and stand on your own and it is for you to decide whether you wanna sell your bitcoin or just reinvest it into another coins.