There are only few "veterans" left that have been here from very beginning.I haven't played much after the 1st merge and I haven't been on TW right from start but here is how I see TW history:
At the beginning there were only few guilds on alliance side:Eternity,Timeless Circle and Intervention's guild( I cannot recall now what was the name of it).I started in Timeless Circle , but as soon as I got to 80 I switched to Eternity because that was alliance guild where raids happpened(Roel,Top, Rhorn,Stray,Hedorei,Watchya,Tesak,Xpain are just some of them , and I cannot remember who used to raid with us at the moment).ICC10N was pretty hard then to be honest. We used to wipe on Deathbringer and taking down Festergut was a big progress for us.Blood quarter came later and it was bugged at that time.Intervention's guild was also making a progress in ICC with his mates. Soon enough 25 man ICC was opened and that's when Interventions 25 man raids begun to happen.Horde was way more powerful and better organized in terms of PVE at that time.They have created guild Maelstrom which pretty much conquered every raids.They managed to get some first realm achievements and downed Blood Queen on 25 man which was really bugged and I myself believed that it wasn't doable.We had so much population that summer, and that record still hasn't been beaten even with all merges.But then hackers appeared and our population dropped dramatically.Next year was with around 250-300 population which wasn't so bad .After some period Roel introduced to us new level 80 realm which was taken as a bad move by players even though I enjoyed playing on it.So now, we had 2 realms and people started to leave our server.Level 80 realm got removed but there were consequences that reflected on population. From 250-300 we dropped to maximum 200 and that number kept dropping when many players decided to transfer to OmegaWoW.We were around 50-100 at that point. But merge with Spermik was kind of comeback for both servers and every other merge revived out population.So that's pretty much from me that was worth mentioning.There were so many more nice and exciting moments but telling would take ages.You wanted some reading material, so here's one
Enjoy your stay here on TrueWow.
I want some nice reading material.
you didnt mension me! it was me who used to tank Kele at council with my hunter. 
how can you forget sutch thing? lol 