WWE: 10 Things Today's Wrestling Fans Wouldn't Understand About The 90s

10. When Tape Trading Was A Way To Watch Hard To Find Matches

Today's wrestling fan has it easy compared to those of us in the 1990s or even the early 2000s. If you wanted to see some old wrestling show or a compilation of matches of a particular wrestler or feud, your best bet was tape trading. Since Ebay was in full swing in the late 1990s, that was something a lot of people used while others had websites set up that led to the sale of wrestling tapes. These days VHS tapes barely exist anymore, but if you wanted that Best of the Four Horsemen compilation that's the only way you could do it. I know that first hand because I remember tape trading in the late 1990s so I could watch some of those Four Horsemen videos from the NWA days that I didn't get to see on TV where I lived. Once Youtube became a part of our everyday lives in the mid 2000s and people could use file sharing on computers, there wasn't a need for tape trading anymore. For a short while, people were trading CDs because they could hold more than a VHS, but those became outdated too. Putting files on hard drives became a common thing too. Now that WWE Network is available, any fan can pull up any PPV event in an instant even on their computers, tablets or phones from anywhere. It's amazing! Old wrestling shows are easier than ever to access and the days of tape trading are so far in the rear window that most of us in our early 30s that remember it sound like people from a whole other generation when it really wasn't that long ago.