I find myself really yearning to explore and understand early XF fandom culture. I get little snippets of clues, I sometimes play with the waybackmachine, livejournal, and fanlore.org, I’ve heard crazy stories of people faking their deaths and lawsuit panic. How, even, certain fics caused absolute shockwaves in the fandom (looking at you, Iolokus). It’s incredibly interesting from a sociological perspective. Have any of you been here from the start? What are your experiences? What do you remember?