History is older than you think

So I've been coming across a fair bit of discussion about fandom history today, and this should be something that I eat up like pie, but instead it's just making me tired and cranky and I think I'm going to back away now. Why?

Because I keep seeing things like "Do you remember printing off fanfic to put in a binder to read later?" or "...and I've been in fandom since the $onlineforum days", and I remember fandom from when the switch from mimeograph to photocopy was a big deal.*

Apparently now the people who think they can recover fannish history from the misty depths of time are the whippersnappers who should get off my lawn. ;-)


*Not to mention HP fandom being held up as the first instance of really, really whacked-out-there fans (heh, see Forever Knight fandom), or Due South for ugly fan wars (not a patch on Blakes 7), or... you get the idea.