http://web.archive.org/web/20010428054124/http://nfsgarage.racerplanet.com/hs/Any of you familiar with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine?
Check out what the NFSGarage looked like back in 2001 (I know many of the images are deadlinks and not all the other pages work either, but that's just how the Wayback Machine works).
Don't forget to look athe list of Network & affliated sites for extra nostalgia.
Back then, NFS Garage was pretty much unique for being the only site where modders could upload their own add-ons. In those days, the NFS mod community consisted of either big sites where the webmasters offered the collection they put together on their own (such as NFS HQ, NFS Design, Omega Design etc), or the creators' own homepages, where they hosted their own made stuff. (often on Geocites, XOOM, Angelfire, etc.
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Other things I notice when browsing through those old pages: not only the looong lists of comments, but also the enormous download numbers.
I remember that the most popular cars were ranging in the tens of thousands...
Example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011005031235/nfsgarage.racerplanet.com/hs/index.php?topic=carinfo&id=441 Really shows you how big the NFS4 mod scene was back in those days... :/