Nostalgial trip for manga geeks

[giethe]

Just finished reading: History of Scanlation

That was emotional, even though I was just a bystander throughout the years (I got into manga in highschool, but latched onto scanlations around beginning of college, around 2002, via an equally bored friend in a dormitory). But hey, it was epic to realize that the old scanlation groups really made a

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[comic_heroine]

Oh man, thanks for the nostalgia trip!! I remember playing with that concept a little bit as a high schooler - my friend and I would scan pages and play with them, putting in our own silly things. -Though scanlations of course weren't too far off from that concept. And MAN! I remember the RARITY of fansubs! Do you?! I remember you would have to wait and wait for some sites and they'd only let so many people download it AND irc. I had a friend even buy fansubs off the net!

Oh man the good old days.

[giethe]

Oh, DO I REMEMBER - the first actual fansubs I remember watching were VHS tapes of Maison Ikkoku! It was incredible when I realized that not only manga was being translated online, but anime as well! (Like I pointed out, I blundered into the Hawks bittorrent archive because I bought the Weiss Kreuz OAV and realized that the 'official' subtitles sucked, while a friend of mine had a superior version - I just had to look for it myself and voila (and yeah, they had a great fansub of Weiss OAV))

Yes. ^__^ Makes me feel kinda old though.

[dia_aren_marie]

adding to the "OH WOW NOSTALGIA TRIP". ahahaha i remember my download complex starting from when i discovered you could download mangaaaaa *_*