PV has been around for half the current life of the rave scene and has pretty much grown with it – I remember when it was a static site and you had to e-mail contributions up to it using normal voice telephone lines, or on occasions I would use a mobile and laptop (at the time I was working as a systems integrator in IT and it was the height of the dotcom boom – lets say a lot of corporate IT resources and time was diverted to the use of the party crews in those days)
you can actually chart the massive boom in raves just before and after the millenium into about 2003 or so by looking at the old threads on here and other pictures (ending in 2004 with the locals backlash, clampdowns and PEL licensing busts in UK and Europe)
that said I think these events are ingrained in worldwide popular culture now and they will always happen in one shape or form; although it is going to take a lot of compromise and negotiation between various sections of the community if some countries are not going to see serious civil conflict because of them; notwithstanding the danger that recreational drug use championed by raves can become problem drug use….
I do think raves grew up with the internet and the two are intrinsically linked….
