Who remembers this Savvy College Student getting over $24,000.00 USD in Bitcoin in 2013?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516708/Savvy-student-gets-24-000-strangers-holding-sign.html

Student who held up 'send Bitcoin' sign during College Game Day TV show gets $24,000 in donations from strangers

• Unidentified college student holds a banner to an ESPN camera on Saturday pleading for money from his mother
• The sign was embedded with a code that linked to an account at Bitcoin, an online payment network
• As pictures on the sign made it to different websites, people started donating money
• The total amount received was $24,361.50

By Daily Mail ReporterPUBLISHED: 01:25 EDT, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 04:01 EDT, 2 December 2013

I got to hand it to the kid for this Genius Idea, "HI MOM SEND BITCOIN" QR Code.  Why didn't I think of that in 2013.  Oh I know why...

That's how I first heard of BITCOIN!  

From watching ESPN and reading about it in the news the very next day.

http://www.businessinsider.com/someone-holding-bitcoin-sign-on-college-gameday-receives-over-22-bitcoins-2013-12

I guess that will be my story when I am asked HOW and WHEN I got into BITCOIN...

http://www.coindesk.com/sports-fan-gets-over-20000-donations-bitcoin-address-sign/

Please share your story on HOW and WHEN you got into BITCOIN in the comments below.