History of Community Evolution

[Affectuum]

Hello, everyone!
This post is not directly related to GURPS.

I'm participating in a GMing School for novices in RPGs. And one of our home tasks was to make a brief look at RPG community evolution. I should warn. We are asked not about RPGs development, it's all about you and your close friends, comic shops, people playing via VTT by Skype or something similar.

• How has it all began? How did you start playing?
• How did it change throught time you've been playing?
• How everyone else in your near surrouding did change through time?
• What does RPG community evolution means for you? Degrading?
• Is your community (group) evolving or degrading through time? Do you know about others? What do you think about Internet RPG commnuity?

Very full and accuarate answers required as possible. Thank you for participating.
In comments I can answer all the questions.