Anipike / Anime web turnpike. This was a thing before google, in which we westerners learned about amazing anime like Akira, or Dragon Ball, or Urusei Yatsura, Gundam, Macross, and the stuff pretty much until like Outlaw Star and Trigun... after that the actual internet became a thing, but it would be a few years until high speed access and reliable methods of getting anime without having to find a store to rent anime (on recommendation) from. Good ol' XDCC transfers, modded Napster, private trackers, kazaa, morpheus, limewire, WinMX, and then eventually bittorrent.