Well, without revealing a lady's age...I'm old enough to remember the days before the internet. Even before the frontiers of BBS and AOL/Compuserve/Genie. I too started out with the library card catalog.
Remember what was adjacent to Transvestism in the card catalog? Transvaal (the European country). Not even sure where that is, but I sometimes thought about going there.
Then I got into Compuserve and the HSX forum. Followed that for a long time, but not sure I ever posted there. Perhaps I did. From compuserve it was a fairly short hop over to the internet and the various search engines (remember alta vista?) for relevant sites. I too remember Tanya Volens web site.
Anyway, I found my way here about 10 years ago and have enjoyed the interactions.