User blog comment:VonGlusenburg/Waves of Alt-hist wiki contributors/@comment-4656717-20150108125958

I'm always quite surprised when I remember that I first made my account in 2011. Admittedly it was December 2011, but still, it doesn't seem that long ago. 14 days after Guns, I just realised.

I'd found the site months and months beforehand, and I read Napoleon's World and Superpowers and just loved it. Even in Primary School, I had made up some little scenarios on paper maps, but at the time I hadn't realised that they were Alternative Histories. Once I found the site, I realised that I simply had to join, but I decided to wait until I had a good idea of my TL before actually signing up. Considering I've been here over three years now, 26 pages in my TL is not all that much to show for it, but I've had a great time playing pathetically small countries in Map Games and reading the incredible stuff others churn out.