Content can be got from anywhere these days, but content where you get to talk to talk to the creator, engage with them, laugh with them, tease them and be teased is much rarer. How many people ever sit down with their favorite authors or artists and get to have multiple conversations over the space of years?

Yeah, I guess those great experiences & relationships could only have been developed & maintained in a similar fashion long ago in the good old times in the apogee of BBSes, the forums and the IRC. ;)