I found steem 11 months ago that's 4th March 2018 from a blog post. The name of the blog is blogtrovert.com where the author listed website that pay people to write.
I loved poems so started posting my poems which I have written before I knew about steem. But the exact first post I made was my introduceyourself post.
I thought steem was like Freelancing where I have to write a post and get paid in dollars immediately. Little did I know its a community and cryptocurrency based.
My first fan was @hr1 he will always come around to read my poems and give me a huge upvote as well.