who of you made use of this service back then?

this site has somehow passed me by at that time...


There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.
You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.
On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.
but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011. and i cannot find that transaction. should of been the 1st transaction in the wallet.
now before i started mining to i do remember creating a few early test wallets as i want sure if i was doing it right, plus my internet sucked so bad i may of not waited for full sync, figured i did it wrong, and just ignored the early test wallets and created new ones. ero that 1st transaction from an early faucet (gavins?) to my one of the early test wallet is likely lost.
however since i almost never delete anything i still wonder if i still have the early test wallets, as i have many early wallet.dats on my old backups. and im pretty anal about backups. so, one day, all those old early wallets copies will get plugged in and run against the blockchain. who knows maybe i will finally find out what happened to that early faucet transaction lol.