Fandom 1994-2000-ish
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| Fanwork | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title: | Fandom 1994-2000-ish | |
| Creator: | Arduinna | |
| Date(s): | 31 March 2012 | |
| Medium: | online, meta | |
| Fandom: | Multifandom | |
| External Links: | Fandom 1994-2000-ish, part 1 (Dreamwidth) Fandom 1994-2000-ish, part 2 (DW) Fandom 1994-2000-ish, part 3 (DW) 2012-03-31 archive page (DW) WebCite: part 1, part 2, part 3, archive page | |
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Fandom 1994-2000-ish is an essay in three parts by Arduinna. It was written for month_of_meta and describes mailing-list-based Western media fandom during the period from about 1994 to 2000. It is reposted on Fanlore with permission.
See also:
- The good old days before google were dark and involved horses, an essay by seperis about fandom in the early 2000s.
- Fandom and the Internet
Contents
- Fandom 1994-2000-ish/Part One
- The Medium Defined the Message
- Signal-to-Noise: Bandwidth and Storage
- Size Limits: Text, Images, Video, Music
- Things were Pricy
- Fandom 1994-2000-ish/Part Two
- Finding Fandom
- Online Services Companies
- Links Pages
- Webrings
- Fanlistings
- Where the Fans were Talking
- Newsgroups
- Mailing Lists
- Message Boards
- IRC and Other Forms of Chat
- Personal Websites and Archives for Essays and Reviews
- Where the Fans were Reading Fanfic
- Archives
- Personal webpages
- Newsletters
- Monofannish or Multifannish
- Spreading the Cross-Fandom Word
- Fandom 1994-2000-ish/Part Three
- Time to Talk About Actual Mailing Lists!
- Gen v Het v Slash
- Public and Private Lists
- What Did People Talk About, Anyway?
- RPF
- Spoilers
- Posting Fanfic
- TPTB on the Lists
- Getting/Trading Source
- Getting to Know People on Lists
