Remember when fansubs came on actual discs traded by mail?

I was cleaning out some old hard drives last weekend and found a folder of episodes I downloaded back in like 2005 or 2006. It got me thinking about how different the whole anime watching experience was. Before streaming, you'd find a fan sub group, mail them blank CDs or DVDs with return postage, and wait like two or three weeks for a show. I remember trading a full set of Ranma 1/2 for someone's El Hazard collection through a forum. Now kids just click a button. Idk, maybe it's just me but there was something cool about that anticipation. Anyone else remember doing the mail trade thing or am I just showing my age?

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mila_harris27d ago

My friend Sarah once traded a stack of burned DVDs for some Trigun episodes. She got them back with a note that just said "sorry for the wait" and a bootleg soundtrack CD for a movie she never watched. The episodes were fine though, all grainy with that old school fansub font. She still has that random soundtrack somewhere. Good times.

raymitchell27d ago

I mailed a guy a pack of blank CD-Rs for an incomplete set of Gundam Wing and he sent me back a pirated copy of Office 97 instead. 2000s internet was the wild west and I was not a smart kid.