Fanhistory.com:Selected anniversaries/December 5
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- Between December 1994 and June 1995, Sonjia Wicke put out list of stories posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative.
- In early December 1995, Alt.sex.fetish.startrek was replaced with alt.startrek.creative.erotica. The e
- Between October and December 1996, the Mulder/Skinner Slash Society was created.
- In December 1997, slash reached a critical mass in the X-Files fan fiction community.
- On December 5, 1998, the mailing list Charmed-Fan-Fiction was created for the posting of Charmed fan fiction. [1]
- On December 5, 2000, the mailing list PopStarFanFics was founded. [2] This list hosted Back Street Boys, NSync, Take5, No Authority, Natural, Christian Davis, Moffatts, Hanson, Skandal, Westlife, A1, MyTown, 5ive, O-town, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson fan fiction.
- Around December 5, 2000, The Leaky Cauldron was founded by Kevin C. Murphy. [3][4][5][6][7] Early people involved with this project include Heidi8, Melissa TLC and B.K. DeLong.
- In December 2000, Warner Brothers sent Claire Fields a cease and desist letter in regards to a Harry Potter related domain name she owned. In response to this, PotterWar was created by Alastair Alexander. Another fan group, Defense Against the Dark Arts, partnered with PotterWar to help them in their effort. There was cross fandom interaction at one point when both groups had some assistance from the BuffyBringers group. (MaryTheFan: [8])
- Slug & Jiggers Apothecary was opened on December 5, 2001 under the management of JayKay.[9]
- On December 5, 2002, the LiveJournal community harrypotterrpg was founded. [10]
- The massive expansive growth of the Lord of the Rings Real Person Fic community started to wane by December of 2003.
Recent days: December 4 – December 3 – December 2
