1982
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1982 is the start of the Internet based fan fiction community migration. This was the year that net.startrek was created by Roger Noe. It was also the start of the period when larger and larger numbers of fan fiction communities were in existence attracting larger and larger fan bases.
There is not much out there documenting what fen were talking This year about outside the Star Trek fandom. This community spent the year discussing the release of the latest Star Trek movie, The Wrath of Khan. There was a movement that started, failed and died that year to get find and get permission to reprint old, out of print fanzines to preserve the history of the community. The community, and other communities, were beginning to place a high demand on these older zines. These zines, when sold or put on auction, would frequently fetch ten times the original selling price. The FanQ awards this year were separated into three categories: Star Trek, Star Wars and Other. The practice of agenting fanzines at conventions started in this year at BlooMN'Con. The community also discussed the lack of fen submissions of Letters of Comment. These had been a central force in the community for many years, helping to inform people of what was going on and acting in a fashion similar to message boards. This lack of feedback lament is one that continued to the present day. Star Trek fans were engaging in political lobbying, trying to get more funding for N.A.S.A.
By this time various communities had been operating for some time. There were many, many fan fiction communities that had been established. Getting into fandom was becoming easier and people no longer needed Star Trek as a conduit to gain access to the media communities. Some avenues of entrance to book, real person fic and anime based traditions remained closed. This was in part due to the small size of the communities, language issues, communities being centered around universities and people not spreading the word about the existence of these communities. others were easier. This was in a small part aided by university bookstores selling a number of fanzines at their shops and the growth of conventions. Some of the fan fiction communities that were present in this period between 1982 and 1988 point included Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica, Space: 1999, Doctor Who, The Questor Tapes, Blake's 7, Buck Rogers, Hill Street Blues, Alias Smith and Jones, A-Team, Airwolf, Dark Shadows, Greatest American Hero, Knight Rider, M*A*S*H, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, The Professionals, Rat Patrol, Remington Steele, Riptide, Simon & Simon, Man from Atlantis, Superman, Sapphire & Steel, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Tomorrow People, and Blade Runner.
See also:
- Conventions held in 1982
- Deaths in 1982
- Fan fiction awards given in 1982
- Fanzines published in 1982
- Legal issues in the fan fiction community in 1982
- Technology innovations in 1982
- Usenet groups created in 1982
