I started waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before the internet and Google, so my story isn't as exciting— there were only 2 of us, so we just went back and forth being the Player then being the DM.

Eventually, I found out the game actually had a name (Dungeons & Dragons) and actual rulebooks (1E). I found the "BECMI" book box sets in a K.B. Toy store and I started loading up on all things D&D.

I got my brother to play briefly (he played and he DM'd on different occasions) and a friend that lived down the street from me (but he quit D&D for Warhammer, which I never got into).

Fast forward a few to high school and I had a whole group of people to play with, so I ran games all the time for them— before school, after school, weekends, holidays; we played almost every single day. A few years later, with a completely different group in a different state, we played every weekend and I'd DM games at the San Diego Comic Con (I attended all 4 days of the Convention for free by volunteering a couple hours a day in the Hospitality Suite— handing out free sodas and chips and candy to normal people and/or to the artists and other "pros" of the convention [which had 2 separate hospitality suites, so the "pros" wouldn't be swarmed by fans]).

Since then it's just been random people I've met in online games and at the local shops.