Fandom 1994-2000-ish
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| Title: | Fandom 1994-2000-ish |
| Creator: | Arduinna |
| Date(s): | 31 March 2012 |
| Medium: | online, meta |
| Fandom: | Media Fandom |
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| 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 |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
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.
Some Direct Responses
- Memories by vass (April 2, 2012)
- post, Archived version, ang, discussing how not everyone was comfortable with mailing list culture (April 5, 2012)
- some_stars, Archived version, some stars, about archives and slow downloads (April 2, 2012)
- fannish history, Archived version, jena (April 3, 2012)
- So much 90's fannish nostalgia has been coming out of the woodwork and it is fantastic., Archived version, pearwaldorf, finding fandom via AOL in 1995 (April 5, 2012)
Similar Essays/Posts
- Reminisce With Me (2008)
- The good old days before google were dark and involved horses (2010)
- Fandom 1994-2000-ish (2012)
- Memories by vass (2012)
- A brief history of fandom, for the teenagers on here who somehow think tumblr invented fandom (2014)
- Was Fanfic Any Different in the Olden Days? (2015)
- The three generations of fanfic (2015)
- I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. (2018)
- Historical trends in fanfiction? (2019)
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