Aight, I see this thread has turned into more of a VC:MP history thread, rather than an earliest memories. So, as Knucis asked me ages ago, I'll post mine too.
I started playing early 2008 if I remember rightly. I found VC:MP and was like shit yeah! I showed one of my mates it and we started playing occasionally in the evenings. Neither of us really played computer games before then so we sucked balls. We'd usually play in XE American, as he would always get kicked from LWs and we couldn't work out why. In the end I discovered it was cos he was using the nick 'David' which was already registered :p So we went back to LWs and decided that we were gonna try and get a car. He kinda got bored of playing but I carried on. I didn't really make friends with anyone cos I thought they were all lifeless geeks who I'd have nothing in common with. So for the first month or so I was just running around and whenever someone killed me I was just like 'Hahaha get a life you fucking nerd.'
Over a little bit of time I did make some friends though. The first was probably [R3V]Jack_Bauer, then Zegro, then [R3V]Gelido and [R3V]envy. They were cool days, the LWs car system was working properly and there were deals happening everywhere. I played until I had about 120k, then bought a golf buggy. I traded the golf buggy and a bit of money for a ranger and then kept on doing the same thing, trading cars, buying them then selling them for a higher price, until I owned a freeway and a VCN Heli. I was pretty content with that.
By this time I had got a bit better at fighting in VC:MP, naturally, and was being asked to join clans. My anti-geek reflex kicked in again and I told them all to go away. I remember the first tag I put on was [DK]. It was owned by a guy named koko, who used to be called usher[50cent] and was later called Akon. He is still around today, but I won't reveal under what alias. I only joined for about 15 minutes because he said he'd give me admin rights in his server, and I just wanted to go in there and fuck around. I got to know a shit load of other players in LWs early 2008, too many to mention here. Most of them have left now but a few are sticking around.
By August 2008, there was only 1 dominant clan in LWs and that was KFJ. I wasn't interested in joining them because I wanted to make competition between clans, not have 1 overruling one. The only one I could see as having potential to rival KFJ was MK. I already knew Faf, from earlier that year and Ashay seemed pretty cool at the time. We grew and I got involved with the recruitment, leading to being an admin in their forums and have a lot of say in who comes in/who goes out. I met aXXo one day, fought with him for a while, then invited him into MK and he joined. In october 2008 I was sick of the inactive leadership of MK, and the fact that members rarely played. So I quit and decided I was gonna stay clanless for a little while.
VC:MP was in something of a crisis from october 2008 onwards. The only active server (LWs) had week long script failures regularly, and the master server list was down for a month or two at a time. I remember coming on and there'd often be just 5 players in the whole of vcmp, or sometimes none at all. I remember playing with Baldachyn a lot and some other DnA that I can't remember the name of. They were pretty much the only other players I ever saw at that time.
I decided to make my own clan in november, the first tag was [TaB] 'The Armed Bastads'. No one understood it though, due to the general lack of English comprehension in VC:MP. So I changed it to something like [VCCF] 'Vice City Crime Families' or some shit like that. I didn't really have any success so I gave them up pretty soon. Late in 2008 though me and N0W4R were playing LWs, getting pissed off with the roofers and spazzers. I was like 'Someone should make a clan against roofers and spazzers' and he was like 'yeah! fuck it let's do it!'. So we made [ArS] (Anti-roofing anti-spazzing). He asked Thijn to join and I asked aXXo to join. We were on our way. Soon after we recruited Kontrium and Mert. Also Knucis applied, became a trainee, I trained him up, then he became a full ArS.
I was getting sick of LWs and the way it was run, the management had no care for its players and refused to conform to a more level gameplay balance. So I was in search for another, better, server. At this time XE was still lingering among low playercounts and there was almost always at least 1 hacker online, so I didn't go there. I was also still very fond of car/prop systems and the reward gained by regular play. This steered me towards rulk's Psycho Empire. I soon became an admin there and had some really good times. I remember it being mostly me, koops, strike, killer and j.king just chilling, helping test stuff and giving suggestions. Things soon went pear shaped though, as we realised that rulk could have massive mood swings and make quite weird decisions. E.G. One day he decided to ban the whole of [ArS] because Kontrium came online and said he didn't like the server. He also started hiring some really shitty admins, like Tanax01. So myself and a few others left the admin team.
I wasn't sure about the future of ArS, as most of its players were inactive, N0W4R had left VC:MP and the co-leader (Thijn) had dissapeared into thin air :p, so I closed it. Over the next day or so I had a load of people saying that I should re-open it and stuff like that. Knucis, and aXXo stood by that, and said I should reopen it. I spoke to Knucis and said that if I did, we would completely change. Instead of being a niche clan, with a direct agenda (anti-roofing anti-spazzing), we would be an eclectic clan that would strive to train up newbies. So we underwent a complete image change, we changed the name to VU and created 2 training ranks instead of just one. (We were the first clan in VC:MP to do this).
VU went well from the start, the dissolution of UB meant that TheKing and a couple of his other clan members joined us. I was sick of the lack of competition in VC:MP, so started urging other clans to have clan wars with us. This was in the most part unsuccessful, but was still good fun. After aXXo's idea of a dueling championship, I soon set up VCDC and had over 40 applicants in just a few days. It was the largest event VC:MP had ever seen and was really good fun. I also applied to be an admin in XE around then, and got level 4 then level 5 a week after.
I kept playing until September 2009, when I left to focus on school. I popped in occasionally under alias and still kept an eye on the forums, but stayed away mostly. The only time when I was playing slightly regularly was when the whole GaLL thing came to life. Myself and a couple of others had been trying to figure out what GaLL was doing differently to other players for a long time, and we put it down to some kind of game modification. When he protested and promised it wasn't ULK.HeAD and I set out to work out what he was really doing. We spent a couple of weeks making a long string of lengthy emails until we cracked it, then I shared it in my VC:MP Stubby guide. (Now everyone thinks they know what a Gall shot is, which is embarrasing really, I saw some MK guy the other day going 'C-bug is so cool!' another guy asked him 'What's the c-bug?' he said 'it's a secret, it's called the Gall shot'. oh dear...)
September 2009 was the first time that I thought of the Sharks vs. Marios server. I kept thinking about it, discussed it with HeAD for quite a few months until I introduced the idea to Knucis on msn. I made a quick first version on PAWN, then he refined it a bit and spoke to Thijn to see what he thought. Due to the lack of pickup functionality in PAWN, he said the best solution was for it to be in Squirrel. At that time I knew nothing about Squirrel so handed all the scripting side of the server over to him. I came back in July 2010 (After my exams had finished) and we launched SvM, to great success. It kinda died out a bit over the summer but now has a regular playercount.
When I came back VU was not in a good state. The majority of the members were inactive and many had left in September after I had left. I set about recruiting some new people and we were back on our feet in no time.
Since then I've just kept playing, seeing new players come and old players go, same old same old. It's been nice to see VC:MP grow but the ratio of English speaking players to non-english speaking players is starting to get a bit scary. I recently learnt to script squirrel and ULK.Venkat and I are making a new server, which should hopefully change VC:MP if it is done right. It shan't be released for another month or two, but when it is, it's gonna blow all of your socks off.
I'm sure I've left out massive chunks and a lot of people's names but there we go. If I were to write my whole history, in detail, it would probably take a couple of pages :p