Sometimes I think about the fact that there's no one fandom history.
When AO3 was becoming a big thing, I was asianfanfics - which apparently was born from a similar situation. That took me until this year to learn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianfanfics . So I guess I was there for a different slice of fandom's beginning.
On that is an entirely different branch from the Archive.
I'm not sure where I am going with this but I guess ....
While knowing fandom history is great, I wish people didn't treat it like a monolith. That the branch of history the Archive exists on should be the one people know. After all even now, the Archive is only one narrow slice of fannish activity.
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When AO3 was becoming a big thing, I was asianfanfics - which apparently was born from a similar situation. That took me until this year to learn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianfanfics . So I guess I was there for a different slice of fandom's beginning.
On that is an entirely different branch from the Archive.
I'm not sure where I am going with this but I guess ....
While knowing fandom history is great, I wish people didn't treat it like a monolith. That the branch of history the Archive exists on should be the one people know. After all even now, the Archive is only one narrow slice of fannish activity.