What Was It Like Being An Anime Fan In The Early 2000s #anime

There was anime news network
Hard to watch anime online for free
People would trade dragon ball Z pictures as currency
YugiOh was so HUGE!
Cartoon Network had so much anime. Toonami and Adult Swim brought the classic
No manga to read online
The only anime magazine was Anime Insider/ Invasion
You were picked on for liking anime
There were many closet anime fans
Finding new anime was hard unless you paid extra for cable
there was the anime network channel with the cablevision box
Youtube came out in 2005 and changed the internet