>>137849628Doesn't matter.
Movies existed before Hollywood's Golden Age etc.
It gained traction after 2000. Getting stuff was now easier and cheaper, communities grew and prospered, including this one. Internet existed for a while, but in 2000 it truly began to unfold it's potential.
>And all you have "discovered"That's the result. It wasn't like this all the time, there were more groups doing scans, subs and so on, waaaay more. That's why "Golden Age", it was alife, more than before, more than now.
DSL and the end of modems helped.
Of course, now we've come full circle, too many people now, phones and Social Cancermetastasis, alternatives dying out and more examples. Not immediatelly, but over time.
But that's unavoidable.