When did you start playing wow?

I remember when I was first convinced by my father in law to play it. He started in 11/04. I played a bit on his warrior he'd made and I liked it, so I picked up a copy for myself in early 05.

Sadly, I got bored and quit just prior to the first expansion and lost that account info forever. Had to re-buy wow a year later or so and start over.

So technically I've been playing since early vanilla, but my oldest current account is from probably TBC. I say probably cause since then 3 of my boys have started playing with me and slowly I moved them off of dads account to their own; we're up to 4 accounts now.

When did you start playing?

Edit: I remember being wow'ed by the lack of zoning (I'd come from FFXI; the only other MMO I'd ever played - every new zone required a loading screen). I couldn't fathom how you could to from Durotar to Barrens without loading.

Another thing that really got me? Instances. I wasn't used to not having to share areas with folks (dungeons etc). That concept was hard for me to wrap my head around.

And mounts you could summon /on demand!/ They weren't timed (chocobos) and could be used whenever you wanted!