Back in the day when I was a kid, I was hardcore into videogames, and I would get GamePro magazine. Ocasionally through the magazine, I would hear of something called anime, or japanimation, or what have you, and I would see anime-style art sometimes in their mail art section. So one day in junior high, I came in after school, was flipping through the channels, and came across Sailor Moon. I recognized it from one of the drawings someone had sent into Gamepro, so I decided to see what it was. At first I was sort of laughing at it, thinking how stupid it was... I'm not quite sure what happened, but I kept watching it. I would watch it every day. This must have continued for something like 2 months, until I came in and flipped it on, and saw a lame cartoon of THE MASK in its place. I was like "WTF!!! WHERES SAILOR MOON" and I went into like 3 days of depression and even wrote a letter to the tv station begging them to put it back on
Around this time I was getting my first experience on the internet, and soon spent most of my time browsing Sailor Moon sites, came across the SOS page... learned about the Pop-tart procott thingy, and went out and bought some pop tarts (GOD, what a loser I was!

) Then when the show moved to USA I was incredibly happy. It came on in the morning while I was at school, so I had to tape it... I had EVERY DAMN EPISODE released at this point archived on EP mode vhs!
Little while later, it got took off USA, but I had all the episodes up to where they stopped dubbing it, so I was somewhat content. Then I saw DBZ one saturday morning, started taping it every weekend...
Then Sailor moon moved to cartoon network, so I went and got my parents to get some more costly cable package so I could have the channel, and I was happy. I also acquired fansubs of the 3 Sailor moon movies.
Then DBZ moved to cartoon network, and I archived like every episode of that (that was dubbed at this point) on VHS.
Now sometime around this point, I started ordering some anime on VHS from Right Stuff. I got Wings of Honneamise, Grave of the Fireflies, Gunsmith cats, and the first half of Evangelion.
Next, I had heard of pokemon through game magazines, and so I started taping it when it aired, got every episode from its first run...
Now sometime, I finally got around to getting the 2nd half of Evangelion, and I think it was at this point where I was truely hooked on anime. It became my favorite series of all time.
Then they started showing tenchi on CN, of course I taped all of that one too. Right after that though I went away to college.
Soon after arriving, I downloaded and watched a 80mb vivo of the first half of End Of Evangelion, in RAW JAPANESE. After veiwing it I literally thought I was going insane, and I decided I absolutely could not watch the rest untill it came out subtitled.
Very soon after, I stumbled across digisubs on irc (they were JUST starting to be made at this point). I remember watching 30mb episodes of Love Hina and thinking how awesome the video quality was ^_^
Anyways I became totally addicted to downloading anime off IRC, I now have over 500 CD-Rs of anime, I started fansubbing myself, and it led me to AMVs ^_^