I remember shortly before Shi No Numa released in 2009, I found a thread on a forum linking to a post on Xbox.com, where someone named "Carbonfibah" had posted a thread discussing numbers on the wall in Verruckt, and how they were bible verses, and he was writing about his ideas behind the drawings and messages on various walls. I was extremely intrigued, and immediately went on Verruckt to begin doing some searching of my own.
I followed this "Carbonfibah" dude on something called Twitter, just a site I'd been using to follow "tweets" about WaW MP. I also found some people named Telixion and Vosty3, making their own videos (A camera pointing at his TV) about their finds and ideas about Verruckt. As it turned out, a few weeks later this guy Carbonfibah tweeted a link to a site he was starting for people to talk about zombies, on a free forum that was extremely basic at the time. I signed up, and the rest was history.
What I miss most about the "old days" was the ability for us to take any idea we had, and seriously consider it. Now, there are too many existing theories and storylines that seem to contradict 'new' theories, and it makes it very hard to freely think as we once did. This site is leaps and bounds above what I ever thought it'd become, however I do reflect upon the "old days" with alot of nostalgia of all the hours I spent. And, of course the distinctive horror/macabre themes of WaW are sorely missed.