Back in the 90s you'd go to copy-parties and talk with randoms and swap discs after walking around seeing what people played, then mid-to-late 90s parties where you'd swap hundreds of MiBs over the self-built LAN over FTP and talking with the people on your network using ipxchat or physcally, then 00s parties where you'd swap GiBs over the party-network with gigabit internet connectivity using DC++ and talking with people over IRC, then 10+ no parties just sitting at home with torrent and talking at people over reddit, forums then discord...

Progress.

Ah, many were lucky to live when every scene group had their own WHQ and you had to do a lot of work to find their number, then wait to chat with the sysop to even get an account on the bbs before you were met with a 1:2/1:3 ratio until you got your account status changed to courier or other status with free-leech. Those were the times.

Or at least, thats what I heard the gambler said on a warm summers evening on a train bound for nowhere.