Whats the one moment in wow you will always remember?
Running around the Tauren starting zone on my first toon. A male Tauren hunter. That was almost 16 years ago.
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I started in BC so I nearly have memorized the starting zones of Blood Elves and Draenei. However, two things I do remember fondly. First was getting my hunter high enough to go to Ghostlands so I could tame my first hunter pet, it was much more difficult then and you did not start with a pet, which was much more rewarding.
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The first time i connected with wow in 2007, on a crt monitor. It was exciting. I choose a night elf toon, and was amazed by teldrassil.
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I remember the very start. My first ever character was a nelf warrior. Seeing the massive tree that had all the class trainers and doing those starting quests. Then eventually leaving that little starting area and getting the tutorial message to open my map. That’s when I realized that this huge area I had been running around and questing in was just a tiny tiny fraction of the world.
This was ~13.5 years ago.
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The oldest is a memory not from inside the game itself but from the original website when the game was still in development. There was a picture of Darnassus (specifically the pathway when you first enter the city from the Night Elf starting zone) and I remember looking at it after having come from Everquest Online Adventures and going “Holy cow, what a unique and beautiful looking place!”
I still remember that image from their official website months before the game ever even released and I don’t think I will ever forget it.
My earliest in game memory though… hmmm…
I would have to say that would be when in Desolace doing the Gelkis/Magram quest-line stuff in Vanilla. I got to the quest where you have to blow this big horn then fight off several waves of enemies. I remember being unable to solo it so my friend came over on his Warrior. I remember inspecting him and seeing he had an Epic two-handed sword on his Warrior and I remember thinking how cool that was. Needless to say he decimated them and helped me to finish the quest-line. I was in awe of how cool and powerful his character was.
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My earliest memory? My first character my Undead Hunter lol one of my favorite memories is I started wow when Hallows end was going on so I got the candy from the Brill inn and got a Male Blood elf mask from it didn’t even know why that was there lol.
I played an MMO before WoW (Asheron’s Call) that was developed in the mid 90s. It looked like a somewhat better version of Minecraft-- ie: terrible. You were technically in a world… but it was lifeless. Everything was static.
I got into one of the last betas for Vanilla and at that time, you could only play Alliance, only certain classes. So I made a Dwarf Hunter and as soon as I logged in, my mind was blown by ten orders of magnitude!
YOUR CHR LEFT FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW!!! There were so many things I can’t even remember them all while I ran to Ironforge. And once inside Ironforge… I’ll never forget the slow walk up the concourse, the giant statues that greet you. It truly felt like Moria/ Tolkien’s ideas of what a Dwarf capital city would look like.
I spend the next FOUR HOURS just wandering around Ironforge. The lava was ANIMATED!!! It was just one mindblowing thing to see after another.
A lot of the magic and majesty that was Classic is forever lost on the fact that just BASIC for a game anymore. And while it may have been expected in some other genres at that time, it wasn’t for MMOs. The only expectation for MMOs at that time (really) was: can you get A LOT of people playing at the same time? That’s it.
WoW blew all of that away in a manner that can’t properly be described with just words.
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My oldest and greatest was getting my Dreadstead on my Lock back in 2008 I was so thrilled, now mounts are a dime a dozen and mean nothing.
Literally my day 1 experience when i first played vanilla. I created a night elf and the starting camera position was looking down at my camera. It took me about an hour to figure out how to adjust it so i spent the first few levels having no idea where to go because i couldnt see.
The minimap was less than useful because the starting zone is one big tree so the minimap was just…green.
My oldest memory will have to be my first character ever that I put any amount of investment into (at the time) back in I think Vanilla or TBC was my Gnome Mage “Mageking” being level 25-26 doing quest in the Wetlands. Though I forgot my old account with him in it and thus he was washed away with some of the Wetlands come Cataclysm.
At least that is my head canon of how he was lost.
The first night I ever played, I bounced around on a night elf druid. I jumped off the tree because I didn’t know falling would kill me. I also didn’t know what release spirit would do, so I sat and stared and waited out the 6 minute timer.
Good times.
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Not being able to solo Hoggar ,embarrassing 
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Trolling in Trade chat on Aggramar and running around IF instead of doing content
logging onto my old mans account and playing his 65 orc rogue in zangarmarsh, thats about all i remember
Running Kara for the vampiric batling in BC.
Finally giving in and buying it after my hardcore classic necromancer died?
If you mean actually in game, the first time I saw Thunder Bluff on the ridge line and was ecstatic to go there… and always being completely lost but happy because I could prowl and stalk people! 
Oldest: running with guildies through the OG Dreadsteed quests.
Aaw-ish: sitting on the aforementioned dreadsteed waiting for the boat, a baby Warlock whispered me asking about it. I ended up going with him to help get his VW.
Most fun: in old AV, I spot s guy in full field Marshal gear before we start. Whispered him and said keep em off me and you’ll never die. (I was Holy way back then) That dude cut down horde like a farm machine on harvest day.
My friend got me to play the free trial back in BC. So I made a night elf druid and she came all the way from the exodar and I was like “how are u a goat???” and then I remember just playing for 3 days straight and getting a high fever.
Gosh I miss old Darkshore so much.
installing it on a 40gb c:\ drive