What decade did you first get into prog?

Prog_Traveller wrote: It's funny how so few people, so far anyway, got into prog in the 90's. In the eighties prog was pretty invisible for the most part although in reality the big named seventies bands such as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd as well as Rush were all pretty big and also ELP(with the ELPowell lineup) to some degree. I think a lot of us who got into these bands in the eighties(including myself) just discovered these bands back catalogs and got into prog that way. In the nineties prog was just starting to gain some momentum again but it was mainly limited to newsgroups and websites. In the 2000's there were social media sites like Myspace, Facebook and the increasing popularity of prog festivals such as Rosfest and Nearfest to help the genres visibility.

In the 60s and 70s I didn't know I was into prog.  I learnt that when I discovered this fantastic site.
So yeah, the internet is invaluable for spreading new music and that's probably why prog has become a sort of fashion these days. 

The 90's, when I was a teenager and began to explore my parents' discography.

My prog love affair started at the beginning = 1969 with ITCOTCK!  I never let this mistress go too far way as I put the cuffs on her! Or she put them on me? 

Canterzeuhl wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: Please read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:Earlier someone mentioned they didn't vote for sixties because they didnt' see that option. I have since added a vote to the 1960's to honor that posters initial choice.So now I would like to ask one person(only one) who did not yet vote who would vote for the seventies to not vote in order to have things equal. Please respond here if you would have voted for the seventies but didn't. Just one person. Thanks. I know it's a strange request but I want this to be as accurate and as fair as possible so please humor me. I have honoured your request, even though my dearest mother was only 4 in 1970.

Well then I hope the person who posted above you didn't vote for the seventies. I say this because if your mother was 4 in 1970 then that means you weren't even born yet(probably not until the nineties). I think you misunderstood my request.

Mr. Mustard wrote: Started around 2005-2006

Let me guess. Your first prog album was Porcupine Tree's "deadwing." That seems to be an album that helped catapault prog into the mainstream in the new millenium. It even made the top 200 album charts and was PT's first album to do so.

'76

70's. A friends brother had In the Court and ELP's 1st on 8-track. There was no turning back after that

Prog was the first type of music I got into as a kid, late 70's (5 years old), going through my father's vinyls... First band I loved was Pink Floyd.

I have 3 older brothers and unintentionally i grew up with pink floyd, yes, king crimson..etc

I kind of stepped into it about 2008, but I didn't become serious about it until mid-2010 when I started listening to Pink Floyd.