I think I was going through youtube looking at Brickfilms and other such Lego stop motions, just clicking on related videos not really looking for anything in particular, and I came across Sampapa's
10 things to do in Blockland and immediately afterwards downloaded vanilla.
I basically cruised around, lurked the forums as well as the game for a bit. It wasn't that I was so much one of those retail holdouts, I was just 14 and unsure of using the "scary internet and its identity thieves" to purchase anything.
Almost eight years later I'm still here, doing who knows what.