I had to just help myself as well. I never took pictures from magazines since there was Usenet
When we started YNOT, it was only to help each other in the small group. Helping non-members was an afterthought. While running ultracash, we opened ultradokk to help webmasters. As far as I know, we were the first program to send weekly newsletters and have a message board for the program's webmasters. ultradokk went great until the guy running it got paranoid and quit a job he was being paid way too much to do
Actually he has kind of been a flake ever since. Too much, "I Quit" and "I'm Back" for my tastes.
Anyway, I digress. Nobody helped me in the day