What was the first time you heard about Crypto

Would be interesting to hear about your personal stories. Especially when and how your crypto journey started. Did you get into it in hope to make a quick bug or did you have an interest in the technology or something completely different.

Me personally I first hear about crypto when a friend of mine started collecting "computer money" little did I know he was mining Bitcoin before it had some real life use case. Many years later I still think back at what could have been if I had done the same.

What are your stories?