Oh wow -- this is awesome. I wandered into fandom at the tail end of the period you're describing (early 2000, when I was unemployed and living in Seattle with a bunch of computer programmers who had a T1 line because they worked out of the extra bedroom). FX started re-running X-Files from the beginning and I went from a casual watcher to a fan, and suddenly all the time I didn't spend hunting through Napster I spent on The Annotated X-Files site and Gossamer. Heh.

Then I moved out and went back to living in my own place (which was awesome) with a 56k dial-up connection (which was... frustrating). Heh.