If I ever have a child, I cannot for them to discover things like Pokémon or some other game/anime/cartoon series I was there to witness and then think I'm so old I don't know about it.
I think I started playing around the1.1 or 1.2 release updates, but with the whole chat reporting, the chat/sign censorship, and now the terms of service changes, I just completely dropped the game. That, and Minetest runs more smoothly on my current desktop.
I played alpha based on this guy I worked with. He came to work almost hungover from lack of sleep. He said that this sandbox survival game had him hooked. I believe I paid $8 back I'm October of 2009.
I have nieces and nephews who ask me about minecraft now. It's comical. I've played longer than they have been alive..
Even something as recent as nephews getting into Minecraft because of the Caves & Cliffs update, like please, I remember when 1 block of water could ruin an entire server
I had a sort of backwards version of this, see I was the first born come and only to my mother, but the first one to any of those sired by my grandparents. (I think Dad was like 19 she was 18.. something around then)
So fast forwqrd like 30 years later my 50-something aunt suddenly is supper knowledgeable about pokemon, when I clearly remember her just not getting it way back then. And I ask her how the hell does she know all this stuff about evolution and regional variants...
And she reminds me that her son is like 12 now.. and I'm like "That scans"
Yeah, that's one of the things that make me sad that i don't have children. When i watch friends with their children, i'm truly envious of the experience with mini-me