Hello, my name is Wes, and I'm a FreeBSD Addict.
Oh, wait, this isn't FreeBSD Anonymous?
I started using FreeBSD pretty much as it was created, but officially with 1.0. Remembering keeping your calculator on hand to calculate disk cylinder sizes to do partitioning?
I was able to use FreeBSD professionally from about 1998, when I became a committer, to 2008, and then my career branched in ways that have been challenging but often unrewarding. I even somehow managed to end up on the Core Team from 2002 to 2008, though due to personal reasons (home destroyed by a wildfire) late 2007 on was mostly MIA.
Since then, I've been largely working in the embedded Linux space, with a short bewildering trip though (moderately) big data and web services. I'll elide the rants on the things misguided developers do to Linux to "harden" it for embedding, and just say that as soon as I have breathing room for catching up on stuff I want to do, I'll be back to FreeBSD. I've kept it running on at least one small system all through the years, in various states of upgrade and/or disrepair.