Well, we already have a "How did you come here" thread started by yours truly, but who cares:
I found TMW on happypenguin, thought "zomfg Secret of Mana MMORPG", played it alone on Elvens home server (No one else online). You could walk around a bit, and if you placed your character between 3 stones you warped to another map. w00t! All with ripped SoM graphics of course. Then a update came, the teleporter went away

Another update, no more copyrighted graphics, nice desert graphics, smaller map, some monsters, yay! Next update, sucky upscaled graphics, still one desert map, but you could buy a cotton shirt (which you couldnt actually see because visible equipment was only implemented ~1-2 years later) if you killed maggots for some hours (like i did), some updates later, cotton shirt was free, some updates later new playerset, yay, some updates later, big competition with soap who gets 100 treasure keys first, and woosh 4 years later, and we are here.
Oh, and somewhere inbetween the graphic files started to get stored outside the TMW binary (yay) and the awesome edit.exe got replaced by XML and tiled.