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!
I don't exactly what it was all about but there was computer games, artists, food and a couple of cakes. Probably some Anime I suppose too! Tough to swallow that this was almost 30 years ago.