An article was posted detailing the history of NEM from December to February. Search for: "From Bulldog To Populist"
Late in the night of December 6th 2013 Eastern time, a new face joined the Bitcointalk community. It took him about a day before he started posting, but only several hours to shift from first-post to openly asking to buy 0.5 Bitcoin's worth of Nxt. He did ask some due-diligence-type questions around that time, but he was certainly interested in second-generation cryptocurrencies. And definitely interested in Nxt.
Waxing nostalgic about the good times in my younger days, half a year ago.
Yes, very nostalgic. A great read! It is a great account of the first days of NEM.