Where was Bitcoin in 2010?

For those who found out about Bitcoin in 2010, how did you find out about it?

Reddit? Digg? Word of mouth? (If so, what kind of groups do you hang out with, and what part of the country do you live in?)

Here's what I'm getting at:

Pesonally, I've been into number-crunching "distributed computing" projects for years. I dabbled in several projects using BOINC (ClimatePrediction.net, etc.) and didn't get a single red cent for doing so. I used to look at the main homepage for distributed computing -- distributedcomputing.info -- to see if "maybe today" they added some good projects -- maybe even ones that could make a few cents each week!

Here's the real irony: Since I switched to Linux, which was last summer -- I installed BOINC and joined one of the projects available to participate in (only some would work on Linux). I ran it for a few days, then realized I was spending electricity for nothing, and quit.

But my point is: I was looking for a distributed computing project like Bitcoins -- it would have been a dream for me! But it wasn't even mentioned on distributedcomputing.info. If it wasn't mentioned there, where was it mentioned?

Even if BTC were only $0.25 each, even if you couldn't buy anything with them -- I would have "been there" and really got into it. I'm not just saying this with 20/20 hindsight...as I said, I spend a lot MORE time getting nothing but a score with projects like this (distributed computing).

So my question is -- HOW did everyone else who discovered it before, say, May 2011, find out about it?  I'm lucky I kept an eye on Cryptogon.com -- he mentioned it on his blog, and that's when I found out about it.

 

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