When was your first experience with Everquest?

[Thanatos7176]

Maybe someone can help me on dates when I started. I remember I ditched my high elf I made and started playing a wood elf druid, and ended up moving to Freeport when I was like lvl 5. It was then that one day I ran through East and West Commons, and entered Kithicor at night. Only it was safe, no one ever worried about it cause it was a noob zone for Rivervale. About a week later, there was this event that SOE or Verrant or whoever they were at the time did, and it later became known as the Battle of Kithicor. This was the day the Plane of Hate opened in Kithicor for the first time, and damn, my fun runs to Misty Thicket were over, at least at night. Anyone remember when the Battle of Kithicor took place in Live?