What year did you start playing your first The Sims game?

I was obsessed with the Sims for years before I got my hands on The Sims 3, watching my friend play, spending hours on the wiki on my mother’s Nokia Touchscreen and dreaming about how the LPs I watched would continue. I got my hands on TS3 sometime during 2012-2013 and was hooked ever since, even when I spent my first year or so without any expansions, stuff packs, or the knowledge of mods. 8-9 years later, and I’m still completely hooked, even if it tends to come in more intense waves of love and passion than something steady and simple (and that’s on the spectrum, luv x).