For me, many of the best parts of the rave scene were the early ones. I wasn't really there at the beginning, though I'd been trying to actually find it for a while at the point I did. It wasn't quite as easy back then. Things were still fairly underground, with a few massives poking their nose out now and then. While following a link from BoingBoing, I discovered this wonderful bit of writing that helped remind me how things felt back then.