Welcome to the Internet: The Early Days of Online Fic

Join Kristin and Emily as they talk about a quirky invention called the World Wide Web, and how the internet changed the landscape of fanfiction. We talk about Usenet groups, Fanfiction.net, and The Great Purge of 2002.

Sources from today's ep:

• A Brief History of Modern Fanfiction: the Migration of Online Communities by Katherine
• alt.tv.x-files (ATFX) on Fanlore
• ATFX Newbie Kiosk
• The Internet is for Fic by Jill Bearup
• Fanfiction.net on Fanlore
• Moving Across Lands: Online Platform Migration in Fandom Communities by Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym

Thank you to Erik Potteiger for producing our song and Haflacky for our logo design. Thank you to Ollie for editing our sound!