New Guitar Strings/First Post With Pics!

I got this guitar for Christmas somewhere around seven years ago. In all that time I never broke a string so I never had to change the them. Today I changed it's strings for the very first time. Surprisingly my small E strings snapped as soon as I touched the tuning key to take it off. I have know idea why it never broke before.

To give you an idea why this is significant just look at these strings. On the left are the new strings, gold and shiny. On the right are the old stings. They look like a 30 year old penny. Delicious.

That's about how they sounded as well. So now I finally have new strings and they sound like Jews Harp, sigh, luckily all I have to do is break them in a bit, and then in seven more years I will change them again.

First post with pics as well. Today is just full of firsts for me. And it's not over yet.