I became a fan of the show during season 2 while I was home on holiday break and had my family send me episodes on VHS. Sometime before season 3 began airing I got a cable package that had Noggin/The-N so I watched live then. I actually don't know if I was aware it was airing earlier in Canada? I have this vague memory of being on a message board that wasn't
or tvtome.com and discussing season 3; I called Craig Strokes kid and predicted that Alex would become a lesbian. I remember saving promo pictures of Craig and Ashley from The-N.com in the earlier seasons...including going through the degrassi.tv gallery on freaking dial up. But that was as far as my fandom interaction went. Once season 4 happened I was spoiling myself while the episode was airing like in Canada and reading fans recap the episodes and then running off to download the episode ASAP on soulseek.