I found a yahoo article about a list of fun sandbox games. I saw Blockland in that list and I decided to check it out. I downloaded the demo and had lots of fun. The first map I ever went to was the kitchen. A few weeks later of playing the demo, I bought the game. According to my activation key e-mail, I bought the game in 2009 during v11. During my early years of Blockland, I only played it in LAN with my siblings. I started playing Blockland online in 2011.