Yeah, the reason I could never get into a fandom prior to Buffy had more to do with the fact that it just wasn't accessible. I was fannish about Star Wars, BattleStar Galatica, Batman & Robin (we went with friends to see them in person at a gas station in PA when I was 7 -- it wasn't really them, so I never did that again. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me), The Monkees, Battle of the Planets...Indiana Jones (we did a parody of it in high school called Idaho Jones, I played the female version of the Nazi villain), the X-Men (which I discussed with friends in college ad naseum).
But there was no way to interact with others, and I'd no access to fanzines really, or any of that. So..it really wasn't until 2002 that I found fandom, and it had a lot to do with what was happening with the internet at that point.
And you're right the things that are hard to find now, we wouldn't even know existed back then.
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Sigh, GIFS. They make me crazy on FB. Take forever to download and my service crashes, because I get lousy service in certain locations. Not user friendly at all. And often head-ache inducing. At one point I had a rule on LJ, no GIFS in responses to posts -- or I'd delete them. (Because they were giving me a headache.) I learned to tolerate them finally.
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Date: 2018-08-17 02:39 am (UTC)But there was no way to interact with others, and I'd no access to fanzines really, or any of that. So..it really wasn't until 2002 that I found fandom, and it had a lot to do with what was happening with the internet at that point.
And you're right the things that are hard to find now, we wouldn't even know existed back then.
...
Sigh, GIFS. They make me crazy on FB. Take forever to download and my service crashes, because I get lousy service in certain locations. Not user friendly at all. And often head-ache inducing. At one point I had a rule on LJ, no GIFS in responses to posts -- or I'd delete them. (Because they were giving me a headache.) I learned to tolerate them finally.