Can you imagine how hard it would be to be in the pinball hobby without the internet? Almost everything I know about pinball (which is not a lot) came from something I read or saw on the internet. Every pin that I have ever bought started because I saw someone advertising a pin for sale on the internet or a pin being revealed by a pin manufacturer.
There is no way I would be involved in this hobby without the internet.
I believe that the internet is a huge contributing factor for why the private pinball market has grown so much over the last 10-20 years.
And kudos to Robin for centralizing a lot of what we need to be in this hobby.