It would be interesting to know where a lot people came from before their days at d-smiley. How did you find out about this place and what forums/communities/IRC channels did you belong to prior?
As with a number of people, I was a regular poster of the CS OTF forums from 2000-2002. I can't say for sure now, but I think it was pinchet who originally gave me the link to the site. Besides the CS forums I could often be seen posting on milfhunter.om, whorecity.com, and rec.sport.lacross.
i was chilling in the UK working for an interweb hosting company and one of the dudes there was playing cs so i played loads then started wondering how i could find out more info and such about cs and strats etc and eventually found cs.net then waited for ages reading shit and after a few months discovered the forums then after that waited a while and posted (fully serious posts mind you) then started to have a bit of fun and fuck around and then met loads of cool dudes that thought i was cool (i sure did pull the wool over their eyes) then i just sorta came here somehow