Living in Eastern Europe, pretty much everyone here had either TSF or 1.20. I was around 5 years old when one of my cousins installed TSF on my computer and I started playing it (so it was probably the summer of 2001), but back then our internet wasn't really working (or cheap), nor was my mother willing to get off the phone for me to be able to play.

Almost 3 years would have to pass before I finally became part of the online community too.