Fanhistory.com:Selected anniversaries/January 18

In 1997, Guide Posts was founded. It was the "original" Sentinel gen fan fiction archive. The archive stopped adding new stories in January of 2002. It had over 3,000 stories archived.
On January 18, 1999, Mike Allen posted a piece of badfic to rec.arts.anime.creative. The story was co-written by Gary Kleppe, Ken Arromdee, Jenny Chan, Donny Cheng, Alan Harnum, Matthew Lewis, Ryoucilo, and Myungsu Suh.
On January 18, 1999, the Fushigi Yuugi mailing list fyfanfiction was created. [1]
On January 18, 2001, the LiveJournal community xfiles was created. [2]
On January 18, 2002, the LiveJournal community arcania_aaa was created. [3]
By January of 2003, the Westlife fandom had also gotten into self published anthologies of stories. Their book was "Westlife Fan Fiction" edited by Lesley Slee, Aisling O'Hagan. (Amazon.Com)
On January 18, 2005, lonersinlove was founded on LiveJournal. It is a community dedicated to the Grissom/Sara pairing. [4]
Around January 18, 2007, Stargate: Atlantis fans got upset about changes in the show. Their feelings of unhappiness were exacerbated by the executive producer, Joseph Mallozzi, who basically called fans lemmings. [5]

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