Any oldfags here who remember the old gravure scanning groups

>>16280342
I remember bluebird, byt i wasn't hard core about collecting.

Tell me more about the csv files. I don't remember that part.

I love stories about pre-web 2.0. Lurking.

>>16282205
A csv file is basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values

I've tried hunting old Geocities pages for sample csv files used in those things so I can research for their implementation, but I can't seem to find it.

This is an example of such page - there's many others, and some people even made wallpapers out of those scans (I have some on an old disc): http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/flats/5669/

OP here. Some links of interest...
A some sort of tribute video/song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WdZLNF-n1Q

nAgUaL, an user in the scanning scene, attempted to write a guide on collecting and managing those stuff, which sadly left unfinished. http://taipei-taiwan.org/dummies/faq/top_frame.htm
(This page describes the CSVs used in collections. Turns out it is for verification purposes, and you are supposed to use a program called Picture Checker in conjunction with it..)

A blog that explains the scanning scene, in Chinese (scroll too far and it goes off-topic): http://blog1.poco.cn/myBlogDetail.php?&id=3589400&user_id=63945&pri=&n=0&stat_request_channel=

tl;dr (based on Google Translate):
>most scanners hang out on IRC (DALnet) and newsgroups (neojapan.sakura and pictures.bluebird)
>major scanning groups often produce a lot of stuff, measured by how much CDs needed to fit their complete collections (they also apparently trade their stuff using CDs)
>most of major scanning groups (Kuni, Enya, PureJapan) were obviously Japanese, with one major group (Asian Scan Wind, aka ASW) hailing from Taiwan)
>as time rolls on, interest in the scene gradually declines while scrutiny from publishers of the photobooks increases (>muh piracy), creating problem for Japanese scanners
>this eventually led to PureJapan's owner (Yuichiro "Bazz" Kitahara) pulling a Fakku and turned it into a paysite to keep the scans afloat for a while (remember, PJ's scans were the property of the photobook publishers, not Bazz's - compare to Fakku hosting scanlations despite paywalling), although the site eventually shut down for good
>scanning scene remained in Taiwan via ASW, which lead to development of Japanese idol fandom
>some independent scanners also exist, as well as sub-scanners - i.e. scanners who "work" for bigger groups

I can assure you though, most of the scanned stuff are archived in sites such as Dynamix and BobX (haven't there in ages).

So what are these, groups who scanned those old photobooks of nude Japans that became illegal a few years ago or something?

I dunno but a lot of pedo fiction and non fiction stories are now completely gone off google groups. I use to love usenet. I hope all that content is backed up somewhere.

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>>16286081
>pedo non fiction stories

>>16286141
Say what you will, those stories needed to be told.

>>16285664
Not became illegal, but rather disappeared from the interwebs. Remember, this is from the dial-up days.

Also, *not all* of their scans have nudity in it, actually.

>>16286833
I mean how it wasn't illegal for them to have nudes of teenage(as in all teen, not 18+) gravure idols back then.

>>16294956
CP was only outlawed in Japan relatively recently.

>>16294983

>>16285664
>>16286833
>>16294956

Please properly read the conversation before interjecting.