It was back around October to November 2010 when I was still playing on my account 'xlushx'. I remember I was still a builder on another freebuild server in classic. Then, my irl best friend, iLiL, who used to be an op here, recommended me to Zombie Survival. I remember my first sentence there was "How do I play this?" and some friendly op gave me instructions. My first maps, I recalled, was a 64x64x64 map with the words "Zombie Survival" and some map called Clockwork (I think) who had this high building that extending to the ceilings and I used to climb up all the time. I also remember how noobish I was, like hiding in small wooden huts as a human with some other noobish humans I believe, and then getting caught. I still recall that confusing time when TheOnes was changed to Blocktopia, and I was horrified when I couldn't find the server on wom. There wasn't things called parkour at that time, and it was just pure running and hiding.
I was still young back then, around 12, and I didn't take the rules seriously and enabled hacks on my wom. There was one day where suddenly I could fly, and being very enthusiastically silly, I typed, "Why can I fly?" There was this op on at that time who questioned me whether I was using wom, and I answered yes in a very stupid way. I thought that ops had the power to control whether hacks were allowed or not, and thus I thought by telling that op I had the right to fly :m Thus I floated around and flew past zombies who were looking quite confused.
Then my stupidity led me to a 3 month ban. I was playing on pokemonstadium and suddenly I realised I could hack. When the next map was loaded, I very excitedly flew about the to of the map and zooming around and around, when bam! I was banned by Jowe.
I still remember one part of my ban appeal my ban appeal:
What were you doing before you got banned: i was playing and suddenly i realised i could jump very high on the map pokemon stadium on the steps so i decided to hack and fly in the next map??
I only realised that I made a grave mistake when many of the high position staff started discussing about my ban appeal. Afterwards, I was really, really, really ashamed of what I had did and went without zs for a year and created this new username.
Afterwards, I started anew around october last year. I still remember the first time I logged into the server using this u/n, and of course, I felt really out of place and made a lot of weird stupid comments. Then my attachment to zombie survival grew again. I made acquaintances, mainly because I was a really awkward person and my own low self-esteem prevented me from having conversations with anyone and most of the time I just prefered to stay in a corner of the map and read what others were chatting about.
What I'm here to say is that even though I wasn't really close with anyone, and I barely made contact with some people in zs, really, you guys, those that I normally just say hi and goodbye without making any conversations, thank you so much for making zombie survival the fun place that it is today. I know I'll definitely miss you guys when the server closes.