Your first screenshot

[Sharpy]

One was made with F12, one with F1, I'm not sure which is earlier.

I'm fairly sure both were made accidentally, me pushing random keys.

[Awaras]

Oldest one I could find, sometime just after persistence was introduced, before landing legs were a thing...

Edited September 16, 2016 by Awaras

[The_Rocketeer]

1 hour ago, Awaras said:

Oldest one I could find, sometime just after persistence was introduced, before landing legs were a thing...

Man, this makes me nostalgic for the old in-development look. It would be awesome if some of these scruffy old textures came back in as 'experimental' versions e.g. for contracts

[Terwin]

My first two screen-shots were just the inside of the Mk1 cockpit because I had accidentally hit V and did not know how to get out of it.  Looks like it was taken the day I started playing

 

Two weeks later I was trying to improve on a flying launchpad someone had posted to the forums:(if you can find that thread, you can view the whole album)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6JrTR4-h1jVYTh5UDdoeDBpdlE

[inigma]

My first screenshot ever in KSP:

 

[Awaras]

4 hours ago, Awaras said:

Oldest one I could find, sometime just after persistence was introduced, before landing legs were a thing...

Heh, just noticed that the bottom left lander indeed HAS landing legs, so it must be from whenever they were included... My bad.

But those winglets on the other two landers were one of the ways we used to work around the no-landing-legs thing before that.

Edited September 16, 2016 by Awaras

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

4 hours ago, Terwin said:

My first two screen-shots were just the inside of the Mk1 cockpit because I had accidentally hit V and did not know how to get out of it.  Looks like it was taken the day I started playing

 

Two weeks later I was trying to improve on a flying launchpad someone had posted to the forums:(if you can find that thread, you can view the whole album)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6JrTR4-h1jVYTh5UDdoeDBpdlE

Ahh, that makes me nostalgic for the souposphere.

[Curveball Anders]

4 hours ago, Terwin said:

My first two screen-shots were just the inside of the Mk1 cockpit because I had accidentally hit V and did not know how to get out of it.

That's likely the most common first screen-shots ever taken

 

[problemecium]

Might as well throw mine into the pot:

Dated 21 January 2012; KSP version 0.13.3 (a.k.a. the old old demo). Those were the days! There was basically nothing to do except try to land on the Mun, and once I did I quickly got bored and uninstalled it, not to come back until about two years later xD

I guess I can take a bit of pride in the fact that I made an SSTO rocket. Yes, I'm an SSTO hipster who made SSTOs before SSTOs were supposed to be a thing ;P

 

[Arni01]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-mCRVSPqSWkRlFfSHJ1dDM4WG8

The oldest screenshot I can find from my hard drive. I didn't take much screenshots back then, so it's not very big surprise, if that picture really is my first. Probably i've taken some accidental screenshots before that, but deleted them. I used that screenshot as my avatar (I had cropped the interface away) for a long time, before I recently made new one.

Edited September 17, 2016 by Arni01

[badpandabear]

The oldest I could find was from just after the ARM parts came out. On my first attempt to deflect an Asteroid I made my rendezvous too close to Kerbin and this happened.

Edited September 18, 2016 by badpandabear
Grammar

[seanth]

On 9/16/2016 at 8:38 AM, The_Rocketeer said:

Man, this makes me nostalgic for the old in-development look. It would be awesome if some of these scruffy old textures came back in as 'experimental' versions e.g. for contracts

Maybe this?

And I agree: a redone contract pack using the older parts as "experimental" ones would be sweet

[kotomikun]

The absolute oldest was of a Mun landing in the demo, but I can't find that one, so here's what I'm pretty sure is my first Duna landing, from almost 3 years ago:

I can tell it's from the early days because I apparently hadn't learned that F2 hides all that junk on the screen; that's why there's several ancient mod popups awkwardly shoved to the bottom. PuntJeb was a velocity tracker for Kerbals (long before the EVA Navball became a thing) and VOID was a KER-esque mod, which I needed for this mission to target the mothership. Because I hadn't figured out how to show debris in the map, or that putting a probe core on the mothership would have made it not debris. Heh heh...

But yes, my first Duna mission had a separate transfer stage--note the docking port on the bottom of the lander--because it seemed necessary (it isn't) and I had done docking in Orbiter a bunch of times. KSP docking was much harder to get the hang of, for some reason. Probably the lack of instrumentation... and the wobbling...

Bonus shot of Bill regretting his life choices:

[Stewcumber]

I haven't posted in a long time but here is my first screenshot in maybe 0.18

 

[The_Rocketeer]

18 hours ago, kotomikun said:

Bonus shot of Bill regretting his life choices:

Pretty sure I built this exact craft once!

[IronCretin]

Here's the oldest one I could find in my steam library:

It was for one of those part test contracts that needed a specific altitude and velocity. My solution was to launch it on a big booster, and then slow down with engines on the front at the appropriate time.

[Draco T stand-up guy]

The screenshot I took for my intro to these forums:

[Lestes]

I think this is from when I first installed FAR and realised that the old fashioned KSP aerodynamics no longer worked...

[Heliosphere]

My oldest screenshot, taken on February 2nd, 2015. This was .90, I think. I joined relatively late.

[NGC3372]

The polar cap of Duna, v0.25, just 2 days after first trying KSP.

Yip, it was a one way trip.

I get the feeling there was more to this craft just before "touchdown"

 

[Meithan]

My first screenshot is a bit more mundane than many others here: it's a screenshot of my first orbit, back in June 2013 (this was 0.20).

There was a definite sense of achievement in getting to orbit for the first time. And it heralded many others that would come later (I remember my first Mun landing and my first docking).

Edited September 22, 2016 by Meithan

[Rainbow-Dashie]

 

 

From when I first figure out how to install Mods... and apparently the screenshot button. c. 2013

This was my huge Capital ship the "SS Verdent (Verdun? Veridian? Something like that) (Huge as in, the launcher to get that into orbit was insane, cause it had to go up in one piece, 2013 me did not know how docking works)

With the Kethane Mod, and a limitless source of Fuel, I planned to go far, I would finally reach another planet, first we would go to Duna... then maybe Jool! There were big expectations for that mission...

It ended up running out of fuel once I got to the Mun... (planned to deploy the mining ship, and top of before Duna..) the "SS Something that begins with a V" ended its short career crashing into the surface of the Mun... taking 7 Kerbals with it...

Still haven't made it to Duna :/

[Trann]

Trolled through my backups and discovered my first version was 0.18

 

My first (recoverable) OS screenshot was September 15 2013:

 

My first in-game screenshot was September 29 2013:

 

My first captures were made using MacOS's Cmd-Shift-4 to grab them so they'd be tougher to track down (but not impossible).  It was such a reflex to hit those three keys that it superceded the KSP memory that Shift was bound to thrust.  Things went ugly a few times but then I started to shutdown the engines to allow that Cmd-Shift-4 to take place.

 

Then I discovered F1.  Then all the F-keys: F2. F5!  F9!!!

Edited September 23, 2016 by Trann
I love backups, don't you?

[Core]

The AAA Munar Tank, which made it's debut on the runway of the KSC. Although intended for the Mun, it drives much better on Kerbin and other planets with similar gravity. The little thrusters are useful for mobility, though. Like landing on the the top of the Vertical Craft Structure.

I think this was my first screenshot, the first that I knew of, anyway. And the ones I did not know of were, personally, embarrassing. Part #1 in the craft creation process, that sort of thing.

[Jart]

My first successful landing on the North Pole