Yup, started following Eric Noah's 3rd Edition News when I was a senior in High School and my main posting board of choice was tsr.com... man that was a long time ago. Registered in 2002 and posted with some frequency from 2002-2005. 2005 I graduated from college, and for years gaming groups were few and far between - four attempts at starting RPG campaigns from 2005-2014 fizzled in one session. I didn't come by much. What I saw of D&D 4e turned me off, and Pathfinder didn't excite me much.
Started posting with some regularity again last fall, and started the first campaign that lasted... at least until the Covid outbreak. But with any luck I'll be buying a house soon - hopefully with a game room! - and can get that campaign going again and start another one on the off weeks! I love being back in the saddle as a DM - and better than ever.
What changes, though... 2002... I was 20, getting through my second attempt at a Freshman year of college, majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, hanging out with geeks and stoners, listening to a lot of industrial rock and reading occult books, perpetually single, living with my parents...
...now I'm 38, have a BA and an MBA, have condos in two big cities and will soon be trading one in for a house, am married to a gorgeous, intelligent woman, have an adorable 4 year old son, work a steady dead end job at a bank that I'll also be leaving soon to start a solo financial planning practice...
...but D&D's still there for me, 29 years after I got my first set for Christmas.