I once played Diablo, when i was 13. I thought that game was really shit.
Then my friend was like "dude, play Runescape, its 100x better than diablo" then i was like "pass, diablo is heaps shit, and you guys all thought that was good".
They kept nagging me to play for like, 2 months.
So, one day i went over to my friends house and he showed me it, and i thought it was so cool that you could talk to people. I had never used the internet other than for school at that point in time.
Like no shit, i didn't even have msn. I didn't care about computers.
So i was like "OMG! Is that a real person playing!?!? Say 'hi' to them!?! OMG thats so cool!!"
So, i started playing, as soon as i got out of tutorial island, i talked to an NPC, a 'level 1 man' or whatever level they are. I thought that was a player, and got really really shitty when he wouldn't talk back to me. Then a player named 'Wattsti' walked past me, laughed at me, then gave me full iron. Which i thought was the coolest thing ever.
Thats how i started.