As far as I could remember my beginning was through TorrentDay it was my usher in Private trackers sites

My first private tracker was pornolab.net. Porn place with ratio and minimum seed time.

torrentleech.org and some others that do not exist at the moment - hard to recall their names...

Demonoid.

Probably Demonoid like 15 years ago...

waffles

mvids

it was audionews.ru for me, almost 20 years ago now
don't laugh, yeah i'm old, back in those days invites was publicly open the first wenesday of each month if i remember well

My first tracker had many names, it was an Icelandic one and there was a big legal debate at that time, many many years ago.
IceTorrent is the only name I can remember..

Being a small Island, the ISPs kept getting hit with legislations to block the sites so they were always just changing domains (before the times of general VPNs haha).
We used proxies and the tracker had like 5-10 different domains.

In the end the guys sold it to someone in Netherlands? or something, and it got hosted outside of Iceland.

Now, unfortunately, it's boiled downed to being Deildu.net... a terrible non reputable private tracker.
The sad thing is it's the only tracker with local Icelandic content... and the quality is SHIT...
I don't know how it's possible to end up with a 320*170p resolution tip from a 4k source, but the Icelandic rippers still manage haha.

No quality control what so ever :/

A bit of a sob story haha, but it's sad that there is actually a place for our local content and it got wiped with no quality control and unwatchable content.

x264.me
Had to check old messages and mails since I forget lol. That was way back when I was first starting with torrents and wasn't very serious. Used it a little but honestly don't remember anything about it. Turns out it closed in 2018 after some searching. Even though didn't used it much its still a bummer.