No, he means groups of hobbyists and fans, writing blogs and sharing their ideas and information and expertise. Making money from the web didn't even occur to anyone back then. And if for instance you were into fishing, or golf or whatever, a search engine would bring up hobbyist blogs, that almost always would have decent information, as they were simply sharing what they knew. No one was copying each other as there was no point to duplicating another's blog as there was no money to be gained from clicks.

People's websites, pages and blogs often had links to the stuff they were interested in, they had no reason to keep you tied to their site, thus was the phenomena of "Surfing the net" just following links that bloggers and so on thought were cool enough to share.

If you were around then you'd get it, the only people who need this explained to them are zoomers and people who got into the web after smartphones and social media.

regardless

adios to animetosho, you will be missed

Damn, now I really want to know what they wrote.

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Well, yeah, but I was wondering if there are more.

NoIt'sNot

It's not worth giving a shot.
Other sites that have been introduced so far also have quality problems.
Their videos are like... unnecessary large because of noise or too small to have decent quality.
Encoder problems? not sure.
Subsplease and Erai-raws are safer choice IMO. (I prefer HEVC to H264 if file size is kind of same though)

I don't think you need to do anything, they upload to google drive, just click on one of their links and you're good to go. Unless you hit a daily quota limit, then you might need to come back later when the quota resets. Hope it helps.

Some of their links are shared from private drive that means you need to join their team drive first before you can download. Well not all of them but I guess that's it.