/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>50425802
you used the landline and hope nobody was on the 56k or fax. AOL and Yahoo messengers like cheetahchat were the big chat tools of the time, which came after public and private chat rooms, but didnt kill them off. Forums and message boards (like this) were gatekept fiercely, sort of like how discord channels are now, except discord and all of its content will eventually disappear forever and continue to be unsearchable, unlike its predecessors. TV was a wayyyy bigger thing back then, too, particularly with Nickolodean Studios, which is also the same era a lot of the funny "meme" commercials came from

All anime was either dubbed and had to be ordered at a comic book/hobby shop, or if you were a MEGA enthusiast, you sent a japanese VHS to a translation group for them to hardcode subs onto the film, and they send it back for $.