Hey, I never mind interesting digressions! :D And yeah, wow, this takes me back SO MUCH. Anime fandom embraced technology very quickly, partly because of the necessities of fanning on a source canon that was, for the most part, only available across an ocean with very expensive postage, and also (I think) because the fans were mostly very young, which meant they had little cash and a high level of technological literacy. I was in my early-to-mid 20s when I was active in anime fandom (late 90s/early 2000s), and I was usually among the oldest people in any given social group -- it was mostly teenagers. I think it was about 2000 when my sister downloaded a bunch of AMVs off Napster (wow, remember Napster?!) that were of a high enough quality that they're still on the low end of acceptable for AMVs today. I thought they were quite the amazing thing when I watched them back then!