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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2008-12-25 11:24 am
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"Fan fiction has mushroomed online in the last few years. There are at least four newgroups dedicated to story postings, and at least three mailing lists."
- Susan Clerc, writing in 1996. My glee at this statement cannot be expressed with mere electrons.
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[identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
HE HE HE HE HE.

It's almost as good as "in the future I envisage a market for approximately five computers..."

/eta: I seem to recall talk of there having been Eight!smut written not that long after the TVM on some fic comm/messageboard or other?
Edited 2008-12-25 00:58 (UTC)
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[identity profile] wiliqueen.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. Talk about your conservative estimates. Unless she means just in one fandom? Because I was on two fic-only lists at the time, both for fairly modestly sized fandoms.

[identity profile] drox.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
What a difference 12 years makes! :-)

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2008-12-26 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
That would not surprise me in the slightest! It certainly began to appear very soon afterwards. :)