It all started late summer of 1999. I was playing online for the first time in a game called Motocross Madness. While playing I talked with a guy who invited me to play a new game called Counter-Strike. So I went to the store and purchased Hal-Life for 9.99 at Office Depot and installed it and downloaded CS for the first time (I think it was beta 5.5 at the time). At the time we only had dial-up so it took a while. Basically I had to download it overnight.

The next day I installed...