Comments | kathyh: Sometimes I feel so old!

kathyh

Sometimes I feel so old!

Jul 13, 2011 10:34

I wonder sometimes how people take the fannish privileges (let alone the real world privileges) they have so for granted. I can remember when fanfic came in zines for which one had to (shock, horror) pay, and if it was an American zine and you were in the UK a zine would cost about the same amount as a hardback book (and sometimes more). For slash ( Read more... )

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archaeologist_d July 13 2011, 09:48:03 UTC

I remember those days. As for the idiots who are telling the non-fandom world about our admittedly illegal links, ghods they need to get a clue. Keep it under the radar or there will be no links. :(((

kathyh July 13 2011, 10:12:40 UTC

Exactly. And from a totally selfish pov I *need* those links for some shows!

I remember those days.

I was loading some fanfic onto my iPod Touch the other day and was suddenly stunned by the incredible advances in technology. I can even remember when you couldn't record a TV show!

archaeologist_d July 13 2011, 11:07:49 UTC

Ah, the days when if you missed the show, you really missed it. I like it better now.

kathyh July 13 2011, 12:57:38 UTC

So do I...much! I remember missing the end of a very good BBC teatime serial of Ivanhoe and being in a sulk about it for weeks *g*. Then there were the endless rows if programmes clashed on different channels. We ended up with a second television to stop my brother and I killing each other!

bookaddict43 July 13 2011, 10:20:13 UTC

I join you in the head desk! Some people...

Also I too remember not being able to record stuff :) We were the first people in the street to have colour tv and when the first all colour broadcast came everyone sat in our lounge room!

kathyh July 13 2011, 12:59:59 UTC

There are still some programmes that surprise me by being colour because I originally watched them in black and white. Colour tv was such a thrill!

ljs July 13 2011, 11:45:14 UTC

I wasn't in fandom pre-internet, but I agree with you absolutely. :-)

(I remember paying big bucks for the London Theatre Record to be shipped the other way across the pond, because that was the only way pre-internet I could keep up with all the theatre reviews....)

[hugs]

kathyh July 13 2011, 13:01:20 UTC

It's amazing what we take for granted now. My nieces once asked me what videos my brother had liked watching when he was little and it honestly took me a moment to remember that we didn't have them!

Many hugs back :)

shapinglight July 13 2011, 13:13:31 UTC

:joins you in the head desking:

kathyh July 13 2011, 14:59:48 UTC

I'm definitely getting that cushion so I don't damage myself too much with the amount of head desking I seem to do these days!

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kathyh July 13 2011, 15:01:09 UTC

I presume young fans just don't realise they shouldn't do it, but with the amount of publicity illegal downloading gets these days they really should. Sigh...

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kathyh July 13 2011, 15:48:47 UTC

I suspect they don't realise how public things are on the internet. I was trying to find credit for a photo the other day and Google took me on a lovely trip all over Tumblr. I'm quite sure that posters don't realise that their images are searchable like that, let alone download links.