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[Zecro_The_Scourge]

German friend showed me it and guided me through the matrix that is ASCII.

[penguinofhonor]

I actually believe I saw it in some "Best Indie Games" list on the internet ages ago.

[skezixx]

After many many hors of Net hack got bored with it so i googled  rouge like games .

[Shadowsandfire]

Surprisingly, Reddit. Under the title "Best games Ever" or something like that. Was not Disappointed. After the 12 hours of tutorial, but still.

[codyorr]

I found out from a friend at work. I kept telling him about all the Paradox games I play so he set about trying to find something hard for me to play. Then I taught HIM how to do many things he hadn't even thought up. MWA HA HA!

[Wolock]

For me it's because of Three Panel Soul

[MAurelius]

Boatmurdered. Can't even remember when. I also wish Tim Denee did nothing for a living except make Dwarf Fortress comics. I bought Peter Tyson's (TinyPirate) book and was not disappointed.

I got in for the awesome. I stayed because DF isn't a game, it's a world simulator, and I find that incredible.

I won't lie - part of me also loves that most people who play it can't hang and give up. In a post long ago I said DF players are like the marines of the gaming world (The few. The proud).

[Dorfs R Fun]

I was searching for an old game from my childhood, Hack101 (aka Nethack). Somehow I stumbled across DF and read an article about somebody building a working computer inside a computer game. WHAT!?

[Koremu]

TvTropes.

[JAFANZ]

IIRC in some less than related thread on RPG.net there was a post referencing the 2nd or 3rd Three Panel Soul DF strip, which I didn't get, & subsequently someone mentioned Dwarfputing projects which led me to the After Action Reporter tutorial & 40d.

[Spaghetti7]

I'm not alone in saying Jefmajor. It had to be the story of Bengal Hairybasements that got me in, and his glorious adventures. 

[yugy]

TV Tropes and then Boatmurdered. It sounded so awesome:

So the merchants arrive to see blood and vomit everywhere, us hauling corpses en masse to the graveyard, a couple rampaging elephants.
WELCOME TO FUCKING BOATMURDERED!
Hope you like miasma!

I've started project 'Fuck The World,' a top secret attempt to funnel magma to the outside. I'll kill those elephants. I'll kill all those fucking elephants.

[Erkeric]

I found it by googling the term "Dwarf fortresses" trying to find examples of grand entrances in the sides of mountains to build in minecraft.

I was looking for something along the lines of Al Khazneh. All i found was examples of 2D DF

[strongrudder]

TV Tropes is littered with DF examples, many of which I found intriguing. So I looked it up.

And then I spent way too much time poring over the DF wiki, fascinated with the level of detail present in the game. It was around this time that I started to think "Man, I need to try this."

I'm the sort of person who studies things extensively before I try them, unless they come on the recommendation of a friend. As the final stage of checking out DF before I downloaded it, I searched Youtube for any fortress mode gameplay, found Jefmajor's 40d series, then in progress. It sealed the deal.

I never did lose my first fort - it still lives in a folder for whenever I feel like trashing goblins like it's 2009 >:]

[tiresius]

I saw an article in "Games for Windows" (wish I still had it) that showed Tarn and Zach playing Go, with a giant backdrop of the world in ASCII.  My Rogue/Nethack/Angband roots suddenly woke up and got excited at the sheer ambition of this wonderful game.
Here is a link to some scans: http://www.tigsource.com/2007/06/29/games-for-windows-magazine-dwarf-fortress/

I remember seeing the download page with the new "3D" version but it was recommended on the very same page to STAY AWAY FROM IT so I started on 2D.  I actually did not get good enough at 2D to even get to the Magma or Candy.  I was really clueless and my biggest success was making a floodgate farm and plenty of booze, just before a band of goblins came and wiped me out.  Lots of cave-ins in those days, as well, which is something I kind of miss.

The forgiving nature of farming in 3D really allowed my fortresses to survive more than a couple years.  Hee hee!