Buying BTC is easy today with sites like Coinbase but what was it like in 2010 and 2011?
What wallet did people use?
In 2010 / 2011 you either had to find someone to trade on this forum or make an international bank transfer to this obscure Bitcoin exchange in Japan, called Mt.Gox. That is, if you wanted to sell Bitcoin or buy Bitcoin on top of what you were able to mine yourself.
Bitcoin Core was the only wallet available back then. Unless I'm mistaken alternative wallets didn't turn up until late 2011 / 2012. If I remember correctly the Bitcoin Core wallet was simply called "Bitcoin" until 2013 / 2014, but maybe I just never noticed the "Core" addendum.