I'm 30 years old and live in Washington state. I started playing D&D with the black box and moved to 2nd edition circa 1991. My group switched to 3rd edition when it came out and have played it ever since.
I was never happy with the over indulgence of rules that is the beast created by WotC. I tried my hand at DMing a few times over the last decade and I was never able to enjoy it with the 3rd edition rules. I was looking around for 3.x material to DM and discovered Necromancer games (3rd edition rules with a 1st edition feel). I have never played 1st edition, but I found myself drawn to the ethos of the older D&D game.
It was around this time while researching Pathfinder that I stumbled upon The Grognardia blog. I thought to myself "what is this strange world called the OSR?" So I have been reading tons of blogs over the last few months, trying to acquaint myself with the dark mystery of yesteryear.
I started with Castles & Crusades and within the last month, it has been Swords & Wizardry and Labyrinth Lord. I just recently downloaded the Basic Fantasy RPG and think I may use that to try to lure my gaming group to the old school.
While I was looking for the game to use, I also decided to try out some of the adventures that had been published to see what the OSR had to offer. After reading Grognardia, I decided to try some of Raggi's stuff. I ordered Death Frost Doom and Grinding Gear. I was pretty much sold!
So I look forward to seeing what James has in store for us in the future and I'm as excited as a little kid about to get all kinds of sugary sweets on Halloween night.