My fondest memories were watching the yogscast shadow of israphael and jaffa cake factory... real ones know... I also watched snapshot videos all the way back in version 1.1!!! same with mod showcase videos.. i remember ones like clay soldiers and creeper variants they were peak.
I think i stopped playing before 1.7 (2013) then I started playing again in 2016 with the 1.12 world of colour update, as you can imagine i was trying to get used to all the new stuff they added!! but during this time i was playing with some friends on a public pixelmon server, collecting shiny pokemon and having fun with people!!
After that I played consistently again, but a lot of the time it was in multiplayer, i've never really enjoyed playing by myself unless I had to so i tried to get all my friends to play with me. I have so many worlds over the years I wish i had pictures of them all cause i built some crazy things like a volcano and pirate ship!!
These past maybe 5 years none of my friends had java edition of minecraft so i couldnt play minecraft the way i wanted to cuz I HATE BEDROCK!!!!
For the past year i have been playing with my boyfriend!!!! and we have so much fun i also still to this day watch snapshot videos (shout out 2 xisumavoid on yt), i love this game and i dont think i will ever stop playing