11th February 2005. Happy 20th (European) birthday WoW!
This character is offically 20 years old 
Can you remember what you was doing? Was you waiting in the login queue like me?
I was sat in my bedroom still living with my parents on my Pentium 4 PC and CRT monitor Lol
I was learning how to read and write haha. I was just 5 years old. It was by that time when I started taking an interest in video games.
Probably playing Ragnarok Online;
Mu Online;
Legend of Mir;
Myth of Soma;
Or whatever other MMO that was about at that time.
I was having my driving lessons around that time. I remember lots of arguments with my parents about quitting because I wanted to play wow. In hindsight, its a good thing didnt let me 
Here’s to another 20 years! 
Good god, that brings back memories, I remember playing Myth of Soma
Runescape farming ores. Lots of ores.
I went OTT developing my character, cheating.
The game had an odd way of leveling all determined by the dynamic stats you gained as you level.
I had a level 1 character afk healing an alt being attacked by a “bric”, those little critters in starting town, that I lured into a building and the alt standing outside in the doorway so people couldn’t kill it. Raised WIS to 30 [more wisdom gave more MP per level].
Similarly I raised CON to 22 [was painfully slow] just punching stuff without killing. More CON = more HP per level.
As such my character had far more HP and MP as it leveled compared to the average player by a considerable amount.
Obviously I was a PK’er! 
What do you mean?
I was 15 back then and now 35 and still live with my parents.
You left your parents? Noob!
Was playing SWG.
Still the greatest MMO ever made.
Folk that think classic is too difficult. lol
SWG was eventually dumbed down to WoW levels and that’s when it died on its farter
I was fighting with my ADHD and how it made third grade so much more difficult then it had to be.
And let me tell you starting wow at the ripe age of elven wasn’t really helping
Basically but god knows I never talked to anyone and the few thing I wrote got checked trice to be sure no one will ever know I’m a kid.
In my mind all these people where like thirty something when in reality the where a bunch of underaged kids around me
No, I started playing around autumn 2005, I was probably busy defending Grove Street in San Andreas.
I was about to finish school and enter the workforce.
Sh** where did the time go?
Could be. I don’t really remember, but me and a group of IRL friends played from day 1 (earlier for me actually since I was in beta as well).
I remember making my female orc, Tahra, and logging in and immediately running all the way over to the tauren starting area. I died many times on the way and I dinged twice I think.
That was the start of Tahra, the orc adopted by tauren. 
I bought the wow dvd box from local game store and then I came home play it and the rest is journey towards here 
I joined to the wow when Vanilla was almost ending. Almost - it was so great and for any magical reason I was playing the game like 28 hours a day, 10 day a week. I don’t know, this magic just evaporated, but I still like the game, don;t get me wrong! Also this char could legally vote and sometimes I think it is older than some players around…
I started playing late October that year. In February that year i was finishing corrections on my phd thesis while working full time. Im not certain what I was playing, but I think it was KOTOR 2 (and one of the burnout takedown games on the xbox).
Got the game from the dear postman in the afternoon, installed it in the evening, and as it became midnight all hell broke loose. 
WoW’s website – where you had to do your account registration – was not prepared for the traffic volume that hit it.
I remember the Community Manager updates on the forum were…shall we say hectic, as Blizzard eventually stripped the website of everything except the plain text and boxes that needed to be filled in just to alleviate the strain on the site and get more players through the account registration and into the game.
That was the bottleneck, and if you got through it, you were basically good to go.
Because everyone was being funneled through the website horror in the equivalent of a camel through the eye of a needle, the game itself was remarkable calm. I made a Night Elf Priest (this one) and could run around and do quests in a very relaxed manner. There were other players, for sure, but not so many that it was disruptive. And as night turned to early morning it was even calmer. It was only the subsequent day that people were starting to get onto the servers in great numbers, at which point the “early access” folks had already progressed beyond the starting zones.
But it was cool, definitely a memorable game experience.
Played on a Fujitsu Siemens Pentium 900 MHz or something like that. Good times. 
I was playing Diablo 2 and Pokémon FireRed on PC with my friends.
I was 13 years old back then.
I still remember the name of the friend who invited me into his house and showed me a night elves.
My first characters were named Inuyasha and Kuwabara because, at that time, I was a big fan of Yu Yu Hakusho aka Ghost Files and Inuyasha anime.
Both of my characters were Night Elf warriors.
Time flies when you’re having fun.