At least in some cases, they could - the first mailing list I was on (in 1995) was run by an undergrad. It's possible that you had to have some kind of "in" with the faculty or staff, though; he might have known someone who was letting him do it.
Oh, interesting! I know there were some grad students running lists, but I figured they counted as semi-faculty and just generally had more access to resources.
remember reading the entire Heliopolis archive, back when you could read the entire Heliopolis archive,
Heeee, I did that, although not with Heliopolis, or even with SG in general (too many of the early slash writers veered off into characterizations I couldn't buy, and those got entrenched for a long time). But I read everything in Pros, and on 852 Prospect, and several others.
I love that there's so much variety and choice now, but man, there was something great about everyone having read all the same things, so we were all having the same broad conversation -- a fanon canon, as it were.
Tiny vids; they were so rare online that I didn't even learn about them 'til I guess probably 1999 or 2000 - AMVs, of course, the anime equivalent.
Yeah, the AMV folks went digital much earlier than the vidding folks, and went for larger files earlier, too. My vidding partner and I used to marvel at the 50 MB AMVs in the early '00s, when vidders were putting up under-20 MB files because you couldn't expect anyone to want to spend hours downloading three minutes' worth of vid.
I hope someday someone does do a post like this for the anime-fandom version of things; I was only very peripherally aware of that side of things, and I'd love to see more about it!
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Oh, interesting! I know there were some grad students running lists, but I figured they counted as semi-faculty and just generally had more access to resources.
remember reading the entire Heliopolis archive, back when you could read the entire Heliopolis archive,
Heeee, I did that, although not with Heliopolis, or even with SG in general (too many of the early slash writers veered off into characterizations I couldn't buy, and those got entrenched for a long time). But I read everything in Pros, and on 852 Prospect, and several others.
I love that there's so much variety and choice now, but man, there was something great about everyone having read all the same things, so we were all having the same broad conversation -- a fanon canon, as it were.
Tiny vids; they were so rare online that I didn't even learn about them 'til I guess probably 1999 or 2000 - AMVs, of course, the anime equivalent.
Yeah, the AMV folks went digital much earlier than the vidding folks, and went for larger files earlier, too. My vidding partner and I used to marvel at the 50 MB AMVs in the early '00s, when vidders were putting up under-20 MB files because you couldn't expect anyone to want to spend hours downloading three minutes' worth of vid.
I hope someday someone does do a post like this for the anime-fandom version of things; I was only very peripherally aware of that side of things, and I'd love to see more about it!