I was hot-and-heavy into Usenet newsgroups; some discussion, some binaries at the time. Once AOL started access, a.k.a. "Eternal September," that was the end of it.
Instantaneous DX news is great, spotting clusters are more helpful than not, and the RBN with other online tools makes DXing easier, but the more I read the old 1960s and 1970s "West Coast DX Bulletins," the more I kinda wish I'd been around in those days, when DXing news came into your physical mailbox only once a week. What massive cultural changes we've seen in those fifty years! But through it all, DX still IS!