esdaniel

First taste of the online experience in 1984 - "bulletin boards" - the precursor to modern forums, bandwidth: 300/300 & 1200/75 bps.
First commercial software gig: 1986
First exposure to RDBMS: 1996
First exposure to the concept of CMS - 1988 - EIS - executive information systems AKA portals
First taste of the internet: 1994
First taste of Linux: 1999 - SUSE Linux
First taste of CRM - authored an in-house solution in 1993
First blog post: 2002
First experience of participating in an open source community: 2003 - RainbowPortal .NET CMS
Migrated to Linux as main/preferred OS: 2005 - Ubuntu
First commercial drupal project: 2006 - http://www.rin.ac.uk
Became parent in February 2009
As of August 2009 took opportunity to relocate to Paris as part of career choice by my wife
First mobile phone with open source OS (Android): 2009

Besides the tech stuff I've also run my own restaurant, worked in an import/export business, a short stint as a money broker and then committed myself to a career in IT since 1997.

Looking ahead... I hope I might find that answer at DrupalCon :-)