Since '98, when a 15-year-old whiz kid built a system for me and installed Bryce 2 on my first-ever computer. I was a total noob in all areas of computing. The renders had the pesky habit of putting a "Metacreations" logo all across them, so he told me he had a "patch" for that, and, sure enough, that cured it. I had my new machine for about six months when I finally got internet, which was a whole new world. I then learned about pirated software and realized my copy of Bryce was illegal. So I went to Best Buy and bought Bryce 3D, which hadn't been out long at the time. The rest is history.