I am ashamed to say that I came from the miniclip generation!
I got bored of Heli-attack and decided to play the new game they had on the top lists. Signed up, worked out what was going on, and started training mining. (This was only around last September).
Then, literally that Saturday, one of the kids in my mentor group at karate (I get to teach the new white belts how to behave in a Dojo) told another kid about this game that he should like. Turns out that one's been playing since Easter, and one since around September before that. (I say Kids, but one's my age and other's 16. We're all black belts, so we at least have some maturity).
I am quite proud of the fact that, despite me coming from the Mini-clip generation, I actually understand how the game works, and don't stand around begging the whole time.
Oh yeah, and one of the guys from karate has now quit, stupid hackers. He was a good miner as well.