May 2006 - my join date.
I spent a lot of time on demo, I was in love with the XFG. Then I started making textures because there was quite a bit of discussion on the forum at that time about texture size, with different people having a go at different things- Becky, Devil007, Tagforce, Honey, Taavi, ElectricWolf etc... I did a couple of small textures and it just went on from there. I thought the community gathered around LFS was awesome. Someone bought me a licence for the work I was doing (I haven't heard from him since, but I'm still very thankful). S2 was like stepping into a bigger world... was a bit confusing at first. I think it's the longest time I've spent on any single game.