March 11th, 2011. Gods, I feel old. I remember starting out with a laptop I got about a year prior without a mouse, nor a mousepad. Cost me about $24 for mouse and mousepad and up until the pp system came out of beta, I worked my way to about 7K (maybe 6K) in standard osu!. I remember for the first year of playing osu!, I was downloading skins nonstop, as in skins that were absolutely not made for maximizing skill. I got really good at sightreading with them and I still prefer using skins that don't have that one same sound for everything.
I miss times like that, man.