CFAN's Fandom Glossary

[anenko]

I've been hit by a wave of nostalgia recently, and have been tossing up stubs on Fanlore for a lot of my old haunts--especially for the X-Men comics fandom (I couldn't believe that no one had already tackled CFAN!)

On my search for screencaps, I rediscovered CFAN's fandom glossary. I was thinking about moving over the information there to Fanlore, but wondered how useful people would actually find it. A lot of the terms are obsolete (so far as I know). I don't see "egoboo," "sillyfic," "feedback fic" or "archive fic" used these days.

Beyond that, I don't feel completely right copying CFAN's content (even rephrased and cited).

Opinions?

Comments

[zooey_glass]

Oh, I totally think this should be moved over wholesale, with a note that it was CFan's. It's totally a part of fandom history, and the fact that so many terms are already falling out of use is an excellent reason to save it!