If you're going to ask others, you gotta share your own story.
But with me personally, I was really interested in cryptography and steganography, and one thing led to another until I eventually stumbled upon Bitcoin. This was late 2009/early 2010. I saw genuine potential in the IDEA, but I saw Bitcoin as more of a proof of concept at the time than anything.
I'm currently looking at
https://icoschedulers.com/ Anyone else looked at these or got some others I should check out?