*dons manga geek cap*

[furato]

The History of Scanlation.

Reading that, I realize I've experienced the scanlation scene from really early, around 2000. Not as far back as the Usenet days, but The Nameless Manga Translation Site, Tales of the Swirly-Eyed Samurai, Mangascans and MangaScreener are definitely familiar names. I can still remember days where before I had my own

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[kari_izumi]

For me, it wasn't manga I kept up with way back when I joined the 'Net in '02, but the anime music. Especially Digimon. In the first four seasons there were over 100 CDs made. That's...a lot of music I DL'ed, and 99 percent of that was over dlai-up and scattered all over the web XD

But yeah...I got into watching anime and reading scanlations around the time I got broadband (about '06, I think). It's so easy to get pretty much anything now.
The article has a point about shoujo translations. The Celetial Maiden site was a blog, IIRC, and she seems like the only person that still is even interested in translating NANA( which I head might be picking back up again this month? I can't say I care anymore, honestly, and not just because of the unavoidable break Yazawa had to take due to her health).

It's late, so I'll have to read that article tomorrow.

[giethe]

Oh wow. I didn't know how young the scanlation scene was, because back then we were sharing Ranma 1/2 scans through CD-ROMs, and I read the first 3/4 of Angel Santuary and Yami no Matsuei through text scripts. ^_^ I remember getting into Tenjou Tenge through FuguTabetai, being banned from the Shoujomagic channel and worshipping Omanga (and by extension, Band of the Hawks - who will always have the cleanest releases back in those days).

And yeah, it's true. I have yet to apply to a shounen group, but it's comforting that the couple or so Shoujo/Josei groups I've tried to join have private groups and sites, because I also want to keep my privacy from the internet, and yet want to help projects along.

Still reading the article, but the first parts are giving me nostalgia for those early days.

[giethe]

Ok. Just finished reading the article and... WOW. I was depressed to find a lot of the old groups dead, though I have to admit, the new stuff are interesting (ahahahah, and I cheered up when I heard Hawks was still alive) and convenient, though I still hate resorting to online readers because I read faster than a page loads, so I'd rather download manga and archive them.

I'll share the link along to my F-List (and anime organization - it's a useful resource for manga-related lectures).

[norther_n_cross]

Aww...>< sorry for the late answer, but thanks for the nice comment about my icons, im glad that at least someone likes them xD.. Thanks again !