The roughly mid-90's and earlier (generally pre-Toonami, pre-anime boom) era of anime & manga fandom: early cons, clubs, tape trading, Nth Generation VHS fansubs, old magazines & fanzines, fandubs, ancient merchandise, rec.arts.anime, and more!
Back in the 80s we'd do a monthly newsletter that was mailed out to all the members, to let them know the time and place of the next meetings and to give them some background on what was happening in the anime world. Artwork was by whoever happened to give us artwork, printing was by whoever was working somewhere that had an unsupervised photocopier.