you can't take something OFF the internet, that's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool

[sab]

You learn somethign alarming every day.

Today, I learned who's credited with coining the first internet usage of the term FANON.


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Emily Salzfass, pleased to meetcha! I tell you I had no. Idea.

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm clearly not getting all the inside stuff, but seriously, the word was coined in 98 only?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I am not sure if this is true. As much as I'd love it to be Sab, I get the feeling that "fanon" has been around longer than that. I'll do some research on it, and maybe I'm misremembering, but I seem to recall the word from like, the late '80s. But heck, I could totally be wrong, too.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

cool, i'd love to hear the outcome of your research!

while it's neat to be able to track down who coined a term, the fannish hive mind often makes that impossible; i wouldn't even be surprised at independent separate coinage in terms like that...

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, of course I didn't actually invent this word. If nothing else, it's such an easy slushing together of words -- fan + canon -- that other folks probably stumbled across it just out of laziness, throughout the history of fans rewriting source material -- aka, since cave painting days.

But what is important here is that the INTERNET thinks *I* invented FANON! Thus making me SUPER FAMOUS! Kiss my staff! Me and Al Gore in '08!

(And Tzikeh, def. let me know what you find out?)

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

yeah, when i read all the comments i finally figured out that that was *you*!!! and of course everything they say on the internet is true, right? right???? :D