I joined as the prior AC Forum I used before TBT was linked to Nookipedia and I used that for about a year. At the time, I was following jvgsjeff's Animal Crossing blogs and in one of them, he mentioned The Bell Tree so I figured I'd try it out as the forum linked to Nookipedia was slowly dying off. (Still exists by the way, but with very little activity occurs within a 2 week span...) I have since been using actively and the community has accepted me very well.(Probably because of my expansive knowledge on technology...)
I still find it funny I've been actively posting since 2012, but nobody here really knows how I am!
I used to go on Animal Crossing Community all the time but then I saw a post with a link to TBT for an auction for Marshal and I wanted to bid on it, so I joined and quickly realized TBT's way better than ACC
I found TBT in 2008 or 9 while searching up AC stuff. I ignored it. Then found it again 2010, didn't pay any attention to it again. Then in 2013 I found it again, and signed up to make bells.
I was getting bored of playing New Leaf by myself and wanted to trade FCs with some people. I joined a Facebook group for it, which turned out to be a wash, so I kept looking and found the forum. Thanks, Google!