I started out in "fandom" (and it didn't feel at all like LJ fandom or even FFnet/forum fandom) in online roleplaying games on specialized servers, called MUSEs (Multi-User Simulated Environment), MUSHes (Multi-User Shared Hallucination), and MUXes (Multi User eXperience) over nine years ago--and I didn't really think about the existence of another side of fandom for nearly seven years. When I did get into thsoe other sides of fandom, it was through FFnet, Livejournal, and to a lesser extent forums, and to a large extent my fannish activities on LJ and the associated web-places continue to feel separate from my MU*ing activities.
The two of them feel so separate, in fact, that I had to change my answers to this survey, because I'd initially answered "other" for 'my primary pre-LJ fandom' simply because I'd had trouble associating my early experiences on Star Trek MU*s with the concept of "fandom" as I know it now (although to be fair, I'm not sure they were my primary pre-LJ fandom, as they only lasted a couple of years for me, and then I moved to Pern, and then to comics, and finally to video games and anime, whence I jumped off into LJ fandom).
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Date: 2006-09-04 06:12 am (UTC)The two of them feel so separate, in fact, that I had to change my answers to this survey, because I'd initially answered "other" for 'my primary pre-LJ fandom' simply because I'd had trouble associating my early experiences on Star Trek MU*s with the concept of "fandom" as I know it now (although to be fair, I'm not sure they were my primary pre-LJ fandom, as they only lasted a couple of years for me, and then I moved to Pern, and then to comics, and finally to video games and anime, whence I jumped off into LJ fandom).