Oh, what a nostalgia trip! I got into fandom in the mid-90s; as a matter of fact, I modded allslash and allslash-d for a while.
There was a another option for mailing lists though. When some of us "old timers" from alt.highlander.tv wanted to start a private list, I did so by paying for server space from a company and learning to use majordomo to run it. It operated like the university servers, but I was just a paying customer. Why did get fed up with the newsgroup? Some newbie spoiled Ritchie Ryan's death for us Americans!
Having recently fallen into a large, fiction-based fandom again (Sherlock) I'm astounded by the speed and ease with which I can get inexpensive pro DVDs (of a BBC show, no less), fan art, and fiction for every pairing, threesome, and kink imaginable. And I don't need to know the right people to get it. Which is all great, but I'll likely never form the kinds of enduring friendships in this fandom that I did when the entirety of Highlander fandom met in one place.
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Date: 2012-03-31 05:12 pm (UTC)There was a another option for mailing lists though. When some of us "old timers" from alt.highlander.tv wanted to start a private list, I did so by paying for server space from a company and learning to use majordomo to run it. It operated like the university servers, but I was just a paying customer. Why did get fed up with the newsgroup? Some newbie spoiled Ritchie Ryan's death for us Americans!
Having recently fallen into a large, fiction-based fandom again (Sherlock) I'm astounded by the speed and ease with which I can get inexpensive pro DVDs (of a BBC show, no less), fan art, and fiction for every pairing, threesome, and kink imaginable. And I don't need to know the right people to get it. Which is all great, but I'll likely never form the kinds of enduring friendships in this fandom that I did when the entirety of Highlander fandom met in one place.