>>156260648I've been playing an MMO game, Ragnarok Online, and most people on my private server MOTRonline were into anime in one way or another. So I got it from them.
I lived in Russia and a lot of people in Russia were on dial up at the time, and so was I, so I had to get it IRL. I went ahead and copied what I could from a little internet cafe called Parus, and joined a little sharing group of people that would copy anime by lending each other their hard drives. I have even been once sent Serial Experiments Lain on CD-R over mail.
That was life.