[ SECRET POST #2946 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2946 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. The older generation was perfectly capable of getting online when the internet was widespread. People who are in their 40s and 50s now were in their 20s and 30s when things really started to take off in the mid-90s.

I mean, really, who do you think created a lot of the fan culture, archival sites, and general basis for online fandom that fans use now? It didn't spring fully-formed from the forehead of the internet like a particularly porn-saturated Athena.

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly what a lot of people seem to think. When I first got into online fandom 20 years ago, there was already a infrastructure to work with, and that has been added to and upgraded ever since. But a lot of fans don't know about this "ancient history" and seem to think that fandom started with LJ and tumblr.

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ayrt

Yeah, and if we really want to do some fandom archaeology, that infrastructure was built on the backbone of bbs and newsgroups that were functional under early TCP/IP for a good 10+ years previous to the world wide web as we know it, and there were probably even smaller enclaves on the ARPANET prior to that, because geeks are nothing if not passionate about our interests.

Which really can be summed up as "guys, you know fandom comes from older fans, right?"

[(Anonymous)]

Very, very true - and people in SF fandom tended be early adopters of technology, so they were more likely to be online as soon as possible than other people of their age.