It is possible that anime and manga would have remained niche phenomena had it not
been for the Internet. Early Western anime fans often tended to come from the scientific
and technological fields and were thus early users of the Internet; and the earliest fan
clubs used mimeographed newsletters and 'zines,' anime-related Internet chat groups
developed with impressive rapidity. In 1994, Wired magazine ran an article on anime
fans that suggested that they were the most 'wired' fan subculture in existence.