I recently came across my (admittedly cringey) blog post from 2005 (that's 15 years ago!): https://kirubakaran.com/archive/2005-12-thoughts-of-paul-gra...

So turns out I discovered Paul Graham in 2005 via his "Great Hackers" talk, started following his essays, then discovered Reddit from that, and then Hacker News from that.

My HN profile says I created the account in Aug 10, 2007. But I remember lurking for a while, so I must have started using it a few months prior to that.

Seems like a lifetime ago.