>>21362239Sami was already VERY popular 23 years ago, but the way people lived then was quite different.
Most people didn't have their own personal PC back then,
but instead the household had one family computer, so you had to hide porn in program folders.
Men doing that, however, wasn't widespread until broadband because dialup was way too slow,
and broadband was really rare during 2001. Broadband became common during 2003,
but the splash Sami's debut made was more powerful than the echo of her return in Black Hole Rising;
people weren't thinking about her nearly as much as they had been doing two years earlier.
Flash drives weren't widely available until 2005, so people saved pictures in a cautious manner.
One of the most common uses for early flash drives was porning because you had a place for it
even if you had a family PC.
People spent entire multiyear stretches doing fuckall back then.
They might let four years pass without doing anything technical, educational, or vocational whatsoever
BUT they'd watch Adult Swim and microwave Michelina's frozen alfredo. Case Closed was literally airing 20 years ago.
You'd have EGMs, Nintendo Powers, Game Informers, your consoles,
and the family PC with Internet Explorer 6 that you had to delete the history on every time.
You watched Myth Busters, X-Play, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, InuYasha, Read or Die, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, etc.
I learned kana during late 2006 because I couldn't wait for FF6 Advance, so I downloaded VisualBoyAdvance and the Japanese ROM.
I didn't learn any kanji then though except the very easiest ones like 人.
I knew zero Japanese during 2005 then kana during 2007, which doesn't mean you know any of the language whatsoever.
The first time I ever heard Japanese being sung was InuYasha's second ending theme during 2003.
Despite that being a moving experience, I took no steps toward learning Japanese 21 years ago.
It was pirating the Japanese FF6 Advance ROM and playing it on VBA.
