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August 1
- "The MTV Music TV Cable Network debuts on the air at Midnight, August 1st." [1]
- Linda Deneroff and Cynthia Levine published the adult, heterosexual Star Wars stories, “Slow Boat to Bespin, 1 and 2" in the multimedia zine Guardian #3. (ksboyd@sfu.ca ) These stories would be part of the focus of an issue over what Star Wars fans could and could not publish when in August 1981, Maureen Garrett, Director of the Official Star Wars Fan Club, sent Guardian and several other fanzines a letter. The letter asserted Lucasfilms Ltd. owned all the characters in the Star Wars universe. The letter also stated that Lucasfilms Ltd. was going to insist on no pornography because they didn't want their image darkened. The letter also alluded to the threat of possible litigation if this problem was not corrected. (ksboyd@sfu.ca, Langley )
- During August 1988, there was the Roy Dotrice Reunion 2, held in Lincoln, United Kingdom.
- On August 1, 2000, the mailing list FilesLyricWheel was created. [2]
- On August 1, 2000, the mailing list hogwartshpworld was created. [3]
- On August 1, 2000, the mailing list KiSS_girltalk was created. [4]
- On August 1, 2000, the mailing list VincentsChamber was created. [5]
- On August 1, 2001, the mailing list Gilmore_Girls_fan_fiction was founded. [6] It was created for the posting of Gilmore Girls fan fiction.
- On August 1, 2002, the LiveJournal community happydementor was created. [7]
- On August 1, 2003, the AFI LiveJournal community _afi_ was created. [8]
- August/September 2004: first ci_slash summer exchange.
- GCFanFics.com opened August 1, 2004.
- On August 1, 2004, the Sara/Greg LiveJournal community sarangreg was created. [9]
- On August 1, 2005, the Weeds mailing list Sho-WEEDS was created. [10]
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