What actually brought you to this forum in the first place

[DQ Eric]

Every single member on a forum like this one arrived here through some kind of specific story, whether that is stumbling across a single thread through a search engine while looking for help with a completely unrelated problem, being recommended by a friend or family member already active in the community, or deliberately seeking out a place to discuss a specific interest that was not well served anywhere else online.

These origin stories are usually genuinely more varied and interesting than people expect before actually asking, and hearing them can be a nice, low pressure way for both newer and long standing members alike to get a slightly better sense of the wider community they are actually part of. So what actually brought you here in the first place, and has your reason for staying around ended up being the same as your original reason for joining?