[ SECRET POST #6239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6239 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Based on 7

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fascinated by pre-Internet fandom. Like how did they even find each other? I grew up in the middle of nowhere and only found fandom in the 90s when our school got a computer lab with internet. I guess maybe people in cities had clubs or conventions but still the networking amazes me.

Re: Based on 7

[(Anonymous)]

I think mostly clubs but also - especially as you go further back in time - lettercols.

Re: Based on 7

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same experience but I stumbled into conclaves of older fans via cosplay so I learned some of the history firsthand. 'Zines is the answer but it comes with the caveat of finding out about the zine in the first place. That seemed to be some combination of other people you know, fantasy books with order forms in the back, comic book shops, and mail-orders/actual fan magazines, depending on where you lived - hard to pop into the local comic book store if your town doesn't have one. But there was always a trail to follow, from a Superman movie to a mail order catalog for comics to ads for fan activities, or from toy commercials to your friend in school who knows were to get all the good shit, or a blurb in the back of your Tor fantasy novel leading you down a mail-order rabbit hole. It was all part of a web of real people and the postal service!

Re: Based on 7

[(Anonymous)]

Weirdest thing I just can't remember how it first started for me.
I was active if a really young fan. We had fanzines, clubs, tribute bands (I was in music bands fandoms), we wrote mail. I had a book with fandom (land-line) telephone numbers. It was normal just to write a letter to a random fan and strike conversation. Or ring them. I had a friend from a different city who started as a pen pal and we had connection for at least 10 years, maybe more. I was friends with cosplay group.
But I just can't remember WHERE I've find all this people.

Re: Based on 7

[(Anonymous)]

Conventions, fanclubs, amateur press associations, zines, letter zines and letter columns in professional publications were common ways.