My first memory of WvW was as an upleveled warrior, zoning into EB on the red side. We were basically being spawn camped, and with no appreciation of tactics, I tried to recreate my PVE styles of running into the mass of players, popping Endure Pain, hitting 100 Blades and waiting for everyone to die... they didn't.
Some more fun nostalgia, one particular fight I remember on Alpine border in the lords room going on for hours and hours, with myself and another warrior doing banner rezzes over and over. This happened a lot back in the day, but when the fight was quite finely poised, and defenders slowly make progress, those clutch banner rezzes bought a bit more time. In the current meta it's far easier to whittle down an enemy...
Last but not least, I can't really say I did much in this one, but following a raid into enemy's garrison, taking the orb, and escoring someone running it back to Bay trying to fend off enemies targeting him, that was absolutely epic. I know it got abused and hacked horribly, but that mechanic felt super fun. There are probably way too many changes in the code to make it viable, but having a week where orbs were brought back (similar to no downstate) would be super cool IMO.
Anyway, thanks for the thread and the replies, made me smile :)