I first heard about it a couple of years back, when reading up on mods for HL2 and coming across this one. Didn’t really think much about it back then, but now that development seems to be coming to a close, I looked into it even more recently and started really getting into it.
Funny story… was looking for Homeworld mods when I came across Adam Foster’s Minerva for HL2 (crazy, what the word “mod” will bring up on Google)… anyway, one thing led to another, and there was BM.
Bless you Adam, in a roundabout sort of way. :freeman: Hope to see ‘Out of Time’ some day…
found it years ago while searching for hlmods and it was aparently not far from release back then too lol
I found Black Mesa a few years back when I was still active on the Valve Developer Wiki.
I’ve been stalking the forums ever since. I know I’m a Cockroach, but I’ve been lurking for quite a long time without posting.
Youtube I saw “Leaks”
I was interested looked it up saw teaser trailer then I forgot about it for a year or two.
saw the official trailer and saw it was planned to be released in 09
then I forgot AGAIN close to planned release and it hit me BMS was supposed to be released. I got on modb added to watch list then I saw update for BMS I was all happy and then and then had my heart ripped out 
Friend told me valve was remaking original half life and was releasing it on XBOX it was just a fan cover made on some art site he got his hopes up for. So I took a look more into it and read it was ganna be a free mod and such.
G4 on demand…
i binged half-life source after hearing of mods for hl2. it was kinda expected…
I first discovered Black Mesa in early 2005 when I was looking around for mods to play after beating HL2 several times.
I found it when they announced themselves as a mod. I too was disappointed by HL :s and their announcement made me really excited to see HL on the source engine with upgraded graphics, maps etc.
I’ve just been lurking like a shadows shadow since then 
i really can’t remember how i stumbled upon this mod, but i remember watching the teaser trailer in early 2009 and thinking ZOMG that’s awesome 
while on https://www.cheatplanet.com i found an article on fan created mods and games.When i saw black mesa i liked it but didn’t have any half life games so forgot about it for a while and remembered when i saw half life 1 and 2 in a yard sale for $1 each.
My friend told me about it around 6 months ago.
I have hours and hours to surf the internet at my high school. While searching through some random mods for half life I found this sight. That was about two years ago.
Not sure if that was MODDB but certainly close to announcement. I am half-life fan so announcement cannot missed my attention 
I found Black Mesa out after I played the PS3 port of Orange Box, got hooked on teh series and a freind told me.
Not sure, but maybe when I was looking for cool mods for HL2 on ModDB. That was waaaay back… 
Possible that I was surfing wiki for HL information and found it there.
I was on combine overwiki and there were two new articles, one for security guard zombies and another for HECU zombies, they both mentioned that Black Mesa would include them. They were deleted soon after since by overwiki’s standards they were just the same as regular zombies.
I found black mesa source in garrysmod.org I saw a npc pack called bms npcs and weapons (it only included a very usseless mp5 wich needed a lot of changes specially in sound, bullets and effects) I didn’t know what bms meant before I typed it in google, heh was funny the first thing of bms I saw was an alien controller sheet n I liked it… the rest, you know look over the place, register in the forum, forget my old username, create this new 1 today…
No. Fucking. Idea.