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By the early 1990s, Japanese car culture was no longer a secret.

Around the world, it stopped being something you heard about and became something you could see.

In parking lots, at drag strips, in the pages of magazines, kids in America were building cars that looked

like they came straight out of Osaka. The philosophy, the obsession with precision, the willingness

to strip a car down to nothing in pursuit of speed, all of it had traveled.

In the last episode, we talked about how Japanese media began to find its way out into the wider world.

But that was just a seed.

And what grew from it didn't just survive.

It mutated into something new, with the help of a little thing called the World Wide Web.

Welcome, you've got mail.

Hey everybody, Welcome back to Pass Gas. My name is Nolan Sykes. I've got some mail for you. Golden Age of JDM. It's episode 8.

We're talking about the effects of the internet on car culture at large through the lens of the Japanese car industry

in this episode.

We're going to talk about the early days, a more humble internet, a more a simpler time

on the internet.

Now, now, I mean, the internet is so ingrained into every part of our lives.

It sounds strange to even call it the World Wide Web because like you

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