!FOUND Looking for fandom history post on tumblr, way too many fandoms and characters to list.

[pronker]

I hope to find it and this is one of the few places I can think of to look because searching google and tumblr produced nada. Tumblr posted a fascinating bit on fandom history circa 2017 entitled "Old Time Fandom Used Kerosene Lamps And Involved Horses" (paraphrased) It generated many reminiscences and I forgot to bookmark it. :/ Please let me know if you recall it. Thanks.

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Re: Your first hyperbole, I think? Any help appreciated.

[full_metal_ox]

One Tumblr you might try searching is the aptly-named olderthannetfic (AKA franzeska—-you’ll note her very low serial number, as a founding mother of AO3—-and franzeska); she hosts a lot of meta and fandom history discussions, often accruing great sprawling fractal link lists and involving fanlore, and has quite likely reblogged the post you’re looking for at some point.

In fact, give me a moment: would this be it? (If so, the “horses” actually alluded to a famous wank/weirditude meme.)

https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_good_old_days_before_google_were_dark_and_involved_horses

(The original, on LiveJournal: https://seperis.livejournal.com/801880.html)

Re: Your first hyperbole, I think? Any help appreciated.

[pronker]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE that's it!!! Thanks ever so much for the retrieval, now neatly bookmarked. Yes, it was facetiously titled and spawned much discussion, huh, it originated on LJ ...