Somewhere around 2012-2013 when I was playing this one paper mario flash game. I never actually made an account or knew what newgrounds actually was until years later though as i aged and looked into other things besides Mario and Kirby. That was definitely for the best because I was really young then.

Howard Stern (radio personality) in the mid-late 1990s.... bottom 5 top of his odd interwebs picks/notables. Likely heard it via radio-to-VHS pre-recording, as I worked 2nd/3rd shift

And as usual, didn't make an account here until.... later, after I trusted Tom not to sell my email account to some poopyheads

Sonic shorts. Volume 3 I think.

I really can't remember. Newgrounds was just kind of always there, along with Albino Blacksheep, as one of the go-to places to find flash movies and games on the web. Which was a pretty big deal Pre-YouTube and Pre-Steam. I can't recall what my first exposure to NG was or how I ended up there, be it a web search or something shared on a forum. But I remember Osama Bin Laden parodies being on the front page, so it's likely it was 2001 or 2002.

I was a young lad who was discovering himself and found the Kramer Hentai Adventure series. It is history from there baby.

Mostly through animators I found on YouTube, but also through some flash games I played back in the late 00s and early 10s.

The Ray series.

I was using the old Nintendo Nsider board and some guys I met on there decided to make their own Proboards site. On there one of them had a thing up for the Numa Numa dance and it linked to Newgrounds.

I discovered NG when I was very young (2or3) when watching reuploads of NG cartoons on YouTube (ex. sonic paradox, M is bad etc.) but I couldn't use a pc at the time so I never went on it. later on I've been playing NG games on other websites over the years on the school computers (henry stickmin, riddle school, super Mario 63). many years later when fnf started becoming viral online and my friend was playing mods on the school computer. I played it here and there but never got into it. and then when I discovered Chris O Nell's let's play channel (OneyPlays) I decided to check out Chris's old cartoons and I found them funny TBH. and then when I found out about the SirTom93 story on wavywebsurf's channel so I decided to make an account on 1/1/23 and I've been a user ever since. :)

madness combat

riddle school started getting popular out of nowhere in 2016 and i instantly became obsessed and started using NG to play all the games in the series over and over and listen to the OST from said series (for some reason i didn't make an account until 2 years later though)

chances are i had heard of the site before 2016 since i got into TBOI in 2015 (yes when i was 11 my parents did not care lmao) and was obsessed with rawest forest when i was like 9 or 10 but i can't confirm

Personally, I just kinda always knew Newgrounds since I was kid, I never really made an account or anything but I really enjoyed the Sonic flash games that were featured on there. I also got a lot into Homestuck at somepoint anf it reminded me of this site!

Playing Flash games on school computers along with a bunch of my classmates

Geometry Dash was one of my favorite games to play, and when I started making music I instantly wanted to put music on the game. That’s when I found the NG is actually so much more than just the music supplier for GD. It’s a community!

I knew of this place for a long while, but a friend of mine thought this place had too many thieves and the idea rubbed off on me until I gave it a chance and realized I love it here.

One of my classmates from school told me about a website that had games where you could kill celebrities. She told me at the time that the website was called "celebritykilling.com" or some shit, and searching around for that eventually lead me to the Assassin collection here on NG back in like 2002 or 2003, back when they had the Shotgun Guy and the page played a loop of this song:

It was during the golden age of YouTube and the many flash games during that time. So around 2009 at best.

just searching for random flash games that i found on youtube,basically i would then go to sites ike miniclips,max games,etc and ng was one of them

geometry dash, thats how i found sooooo many fucking good ass tracks made by dimrain47 and paragonx9

playing some flash games, but i only thought about joining it and using it to share my art last year

I played Geometry Dash and found Newgrounds from there.

I found out about Newgrounds by playing Geometry Dash, long before i started producing hardstyle music (January, 2019).

But i started to show more activity right after i stepped on producing music, and Newgrounds will be forever in my heart as this is where i began and i'm still here, trying to spread hardstyle sounds to the NG public.

Playing this games:

Abobo

Boxhead

Castle crashers

I really like that tank design and the phrase "everything by everyone"

Well that sucks

First discovered in 2012 because my friend was talking about it. Was playing for a while to try and get medals but left shortly after because I was more interested with my PS3.

Only re-joined this year after remembering the good old days. :)

I still really miss "the problems of the future, today" because the future is still very problematic.

I was a moody teenage kid and found a "controversial" website full of neat cartoons and things one day. TBH, I used to post a lot on GameFaq's LUE board. And here I am again, posting on Newgrounds, 20 years later...

Old crappy games that nobody remembers, but then I decided to finally make an account because of a certain game being a time-wasting miracle. Then I just discovered the forums. Huzzah!

Heard about it on the Neopets forums when I was like 8 years old in 2004 lmao

Thanks to GBA Alien Hominid, I kinda remember seeing the Newgrounds logo on old flash games I played but the GBA Alien Hominid took me to the site. I got interested on newgrounds in December 2020 and I finally joined on January 2021