I guess I can share my story too, I think it was '97 or '98 and I was at my uncle's house using his computer (AOL yay!) when I saw a program on his pc called "Nesticle" bundled with a bunch of roms. I was like OMG!! This is awesome! I went home and copied the floppy it was on and began to play teh romz! Eventually my folks got a new pc and internet and I started to get more games, snes, genesis, etc In 2001 or 2002 I signed up for an account on emutalk and quickly got 1300 posts, no real spam though. Anyway, I eventually got banned (political reasons [summoned64]), and joined RomShare, I quickly became a moderator, then a super moderator, and saw a link for 1emulation. I removed it from the post (it had new neogeo roms and nrx hacks) and joined up! From there, as you can say, it's history.