For me, my eldest brother used to play cracked version of CS:CZ and i remember it having pixelated graphics xD, and he wouldn't let us play because he thought our vision would get ruined(he already had glasses). But my elder(i have two brothers) brother and eventually got to play by solving the pixelated graphics issue(realized that you could just change the settings lol). We then started playing online on DAVAJ, club v6 servers, etc. I used to play only normal mode, but my bro was into multimode servers (ZE,ZM,DR,BHOP,JB). Furious and club v6 multimode were big back then. My brother wanted to become an admin and he was told that he had to buy the actual game on steam. It was then that we got to know what steam was and actually bought the cs antho(cz,1.6,deleted scenes) for 50rs lol. I think later csgo came out, and my brother bought it for 300-400 rs I think, got into trading, made money, got scammed, made money again, then just stopped trading and just played the game how it was meant to be played xD.

I would love to hear your stories as well :)