Yea I mean it was subject to capitalist shit too. Like I'm seem to remember big sites charging for affiliate links and stuff. But yea a lot of it was just like "oh yea i fw your content."

I probably found most of the sites i visited in thr 90s that way or just in chatrooms or friends by word of mouth. Ironically it some ways it was more communal before social media, everything was shared by people and not as much by algorithms