Timeline of Xena: Warrior Princess Fandom
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| Dates: | January 1995 - present |
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Timeline of Xena: Warrior Princess Fandom
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Timeline
January 1995
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (the series) debuts on U.S. television.
February 1995
- Hercules NetForum debuts
- Lawless appears as the character "Lyla" on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
March 1995
- "Xena" first appears on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, she later returns as this character in May 1995 episodes, as well as in 1997 and 1998 eps
September 1995
- Xena: Warrior Princess debuts on U.S. television.
- Carol Burrell launches the first fan web site, "Xena at Logomancy."
October 1995
- Xena NetForum debuts.
- GONEGRA starts the first Xena chat (AOL chat in the Lawless room).
November 1995
- Alt.tv.xena newsgroup created.
December 1995
- Arbiter begins the first Xena: Warrior Princess mailing list, known as "Xena"
January 1996
- Artemis launches her web site.
- Fans pick the name "Xenite" for themselves during online vote.
- IRC chats begin
March 1996
- Arbiter starts second Xena: Warrior Princess mailing list, "Xenaverse"
- Kym Taborn's Xena Media Review (XMR) premieres. This predates Whoosh!.
- Lucy Lawless' first message to her fans is posted online.
April 1996
- Technical problems with the server force "Xenaverse" to shut down.
May 1996
- A new version of Xenaverse, "XenaVerse," is launched by Spikus and Penth.
- Arbiter shuts down his original "Xena" list.
- Sandi-J launches the "Herc-Xena" mailing list.
- The International Association of Xena Studies (IAXS) established.
- Kym Taborn's This Week In Xena News begins.
June 1996
- Tom Simpson starts Tom's Xena Page.
- Venator starts a new moderated mailing list, "Chakram."
- Kym Taborn and Tricia Murphy's IAXS Webpage goes online.
June 1997
- "The first recorded attempt at a true ÜberXena in the Xenaverse was a non-web posted never completed serial short story called "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" by Miss and Aisa, which was released on a private mailing list in early June 1997."[1]
January 1998
- "Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus" (animate movie) is released, Lawless does the voice of "Xena"
June 2001
- the last episode of Xena airs