A 3k player on KGS Well, I started to know about go when I got myself a book introducing various different strategy games on early 2002.
But it wasn't until I bought a Hikaru No Go manga and I started to get interested in this game. (Yep, like most of the peeps out there. :) )
I started to play on KGS few months later, using guest accounts, but after I get to know the game more after playing for a while I got myself an account 'zugunner' (18k - 13k)
I was often described as 'the go player with strange moves'. Indeed, I love to experiment different moves, including the tengen, 5-5, 6-3 etc. But I felt that my rank wasn't getting higher, and so I took another account 'HeadsKung?' (9k - 4k)
It was a real challenge as I started to play opponents 4 ranks above me. Although I kept losing, I slowly got used to how the opponents of the same rank play and I held on.
But, after a few months of playing, I got stuck at the same rank and I wasn't happy about it. So I got another account named 'Turqoise' (3k - ?) again. I hoped that I could play with players with higher ranks, hopefully I could improve as well. That's about it :)