The internet has certainly made many collectibles that once seemed rare not so rare anymore. There are auctions 365 days a year, 24/7 so most anything you want is available at any time.
I was also interviewed yesterday for that article and I was asked if the internet has changed our perception of which cards are rare. I had trouble answering that one as I am not sure. There are a few cards today that were known twenty years ago that probably didn't have the stature they do now. In particular I thought of the 1914 Baltimore News Ruth and the T210 Jackson. If you had one of these in 1985 or 1990, they really didn't sell for that much. But did the internet affect our different ideas about them? I don't know.
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