Ah, yes.
It's was, I think I was 8 at the time, and I downloaded Qoole for some reason and started playing around with it. I spent maybe 2-4 years making simple maps for Quake 2, and being wise enough not to post them. Then QuArK came along and I was hooked. I spent quite a long time making both Quake 2 and 3 maps, and yet again, I never posted them, nor even looked at any tutorials. About 3 or 4 years ago, I found out about half-life. I bought it as a gift for a friend of mine, and after watching him play it, decided to get a copy of my own. I mapped for half-life for a while with QuArK, which was awsome, and it was about this time that I started to turn out quality maps. But, sadly, I never finished one of the many projects I started, so, I never posted anything ethier. After a while, I needed help with some of the more confusing entities, so I googled, and found TWHL.
Then I got Half-Life 2 maybe 6 months after it was released. I jumped on to QuArK, all exitied to start mapping, and I noticed that QuArK didn't have full support for Half-life 2. So, I was forced to use hammer, and after a while with it, I've gotten very acustomed to using it.
Finally, I decided to try to give something back to the communities who helped me so much with their tutorials. So I joined TWHL and the Snarkpit a while back and have been here ever since.