Here's a perspective on how the dark years were, in a time with Internet, but not everyone had broadband and getting episode access wasn't that easy (unless you had saved old videotapes and laserdiscs).
In this fanfiction story, the writer refers to Krang's base as the
Thunderdome, even if we all know the Technodrome is one of the most iconic locations of the Fred Wolf series.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/939297/...ant-Chronicles