1991
From Fan History Wiki
1991 was when the anime fan fiction community jumped the gun on pretty much every other fan fiction community, got on the Internet and created their architecture which would launch them into the present day. Real Person Fic continued in this year.
The infrastructure for the anime fan fiction community was starting to be built. Several key events happened this year. One was the founding of Eyrie Productions. This archive, still around and important in 2005, was the first anime fan fiction archive on the Internet. The first story posted there was a self-insertion fanfic titled "Undocumented Features", set at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In the same year, in June, “Big Bang" becomes the first piece of fan fiction posted to rec.arts.anime. The story was written Ryan Matthews. The piece was based on the anime show Dirty Pair. It would set the stage for using Usenet as a place to share anime fan fiction.
Anime also became bigger in the United States thanks to the many conventions that were to follow in the years to come. One of the first conventions of importance in the anime community. This was AnimeCon ’91 and it was held in September. It would influence a number of other conventions both in style and content.
By this time. Duran Duran slash and het fic was circulating in fanzines. According to Sidewinder on LiveJournal, Duran Duran zine publishers and authors said that Duran Duran were aware of the fan fiction based on them. Sidewinder also notes that people involved in what will later be called Real Person Fic communities at that time did not seem to come from the same community as "traditional fan fiction fans" were coming from. They did not have the idea the material they were creating was taboo. The members of this community who eventually transitioned to Internet based fan fiction communities did not realize that taboo nature until they started interacting with media based fen.
See also:
- Canon released in 1991
- Conventions held in 1991
- Fan fiction archives founded in 1991
- Fan fiction awards given in 1991
- Fanzines published in 1991
- Mailing lists founded in 1991
- Stories published in 1991
- Technology innovations in 1991
- Usenet groups created in 1991
