1993
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1993 was a year of transition. A lot of activity was taking place in the fanzine based communities. At the same time, various fan fiction communities were beginning to translate more and more of their activities into the electronic based medium. Some communities that had not existed began to ready themselves for their show on a bigger fannish stage.
X-Files premiered on television this year. This event could be seen as marking the beginning of one of the first two truly big, truly net based fandoms.
Usenet continued to be important in centralizing some fan fiction fannish related communities and a number of fan fiction related groups were created this year. In May, rec.arts.anime.stories was created. On May 23, alt.drwho.creative was created for fans to post their Doctor Who fan fiction.
As more fen start entering on-line communities, m 2000 ovements began again efforts to preserve fan fiction that was originally published in fanzines. One community which actively began to try to do that starting in 1993 was the The Professionals fandom.
Real person fic took its first hesitant and not necessarily legitimate step into having an on-line presence when The Nifty Archive was created this year. Historically, this archive is not viewed as a home to true fan fiction, but rather celebrity based erotica which was absent the "fannish" fan fiction context. Nifty was a door though that many people would go through before entering into real person fan fiction communities that were viewed as more legitimate by the rest of the fan fiction community.
The literary fan fiction communities of Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Rice Burroughs continued on. In this year, Sherlock Holmes and the Greyfriars School Mystery, a privately printed zine by Val Andrews, was published.
In the world of canon universes, several things were happening: Quantum Leap was in its final season, Star Trek: The Next Generation was in its sixth season, and Robin Hood: Men In Tights and Jurassic Park were released in theaters.
See also:
- Canon released in 1993
- Fan fiction archives founded in 1993
- Fan fiction awards given in 1993
- Fanzines published in 1993
- Mailing lists founded in 1993
- Stories published in 1993
- Technology innovations in 1993
- Usenet groups created in 1993
