I feel like such a dinosaur trying to even understand half of what you wrote.
I started in SF fandom around 1966 or so. Fanfiction? what was that? LOL When we started writing it, publishing or disseminating it, it was with typewriters and postage stamps. SF clubs (many of them Star Trek affiliated in those days) had yearly books they published; moving up to montly magazines also typed and mailed.
I remember when one man introduced a computer to the club. OMG it was like some demonic monster! It needed special codes to enter and it took longer to put in an article than to just type the silly thing up!
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I started in SF fandom around 1966 or so. Fanfiction? what was that? LOL When we started writing it, publishing or disseminating it, it was with typewriters and postage stamps. SF clubs (many of them Star Trek affiliated in those days) had yearly books they published; moving up to montly magazines also typed and mailed.
I remember when one man introduced a computer to the club. OMG it was like some demonic monster! It needed special codes to enter and it took longer to put in an article than to just type the silly thing up!
Fandom has come a long way baby. XD