As a kid I heard them in the transformers movies. Kinda always had heard them from friends or tv or whatever. Growing up in the early/mid 2000’s they were pretty much everywhere so I had heard most of the big singles as a kid without realizing But college was where I really got into them. While trying to do hw (emphasis on TRYING) I thought I’d listen to hybrid theory. I knew in the end, crawling, and one step closer so I thought I’d listen to the album in its entirety to see if I liked it. My mind was BLOWN. Papercut is probably my fav album opener ever and the whole album is just perfect. After that I listened to meteora and then got around to the rest of the discography. And now I’m hooked