There was a lot to do in WoW other then PvE but everything required time.and gold. You see back then WoW was totally different, making gold got easier but still challenging, BG'ing was popular and arean's were introduced. In university with classes and social life I didn't have the time to play. I knew that Glider was a full fledged bot but up till now I really only needed it to fish, but that soon changed.
I used it and it was AMAZING! Then TBC took over and I started university. I came across a program called Glider that offered a free fishing bot. Fishing in WoW back then was the most tedious thing in the world.
So my history actually started in vanilla, with a fishing bot.