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	rennyn_alerothi 2007-12-02 05:17 am UTC (link)
	I did. It's dead and gone now. But man, those were the days... (Reply to this)

mariann
2007-12-02 05:24 am UTC (link)

Back in 1995, I co-ran the X-Files RPG on AOL, then moved on to IRC as #xfsim from 1996-97. Our game was very popular and enjoyable, featured in two Internet yellow page directories and in an article by now-TIME writer Lev Grossman. Ah, those were fun days!

I had a pretty extensive website on AOL/GNN with character profiles, game summaries and simfic, but after a couple of years of good times, the core players went their separate ways as people lost interest with the series or formed other attachments in other fandoms. That old website only exists now on my hard drive, but here's another player's version. It hasn't been updated in almost ten years so I'm feeling really old now.

I occasionally search for my old friends to see what's up, but it's been hard to find them so I have [Unknown LJ tag] for any former players who stumble into LJ-land. And sometimes, when I'm feeling really nostalgic, I indulge my imagination with a reunion game session.

Thanks for the memories!

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	also_not_a_pipe 2007-12-02 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my goodness, I played in that! It was one of the first things I did after my family got AOL, so I'm guessing I was around in maybe '95 or '96. For some reason my character's partner's name popped into my head while I was driving someplace a month or two back, but now I can't for the life of me remember it anymore. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rikiki 2007-12-02 06:41 am UTC (link)
	There's going to be a second X-Files movie? O.O Boobies for you! (Reply to this)

	brennalarose 2007-12-02 02:59 pm UTC (link)
	EEEEEEEEEE! Santa Goren! I'd tell him I've been a bad little girl, but then he'd analyze me. (Reply to this)

	ecchaniz0r 2007-12-02 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	I used to hang around the old Fox BBS system. I was such a n00b, but they were nice to me, and taught me how to not be a dingdong. (Reply to this)

pandonkey
2007-12-02 04:02 pm UTC (link)

I used to hang around the AOL X-Files chatroom back in...mmm...probably '96 or '97. I can't remember what my old handle used to be, though. I was most often found in a private offshoot room that was occasionally known as the "Bisquick Room" and other variants; do you remember anything like that? Just about the only detail I remember is that a guy who was very fond of vacuuming was one of the active members.

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	sisterelwood 2007-12-02 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	Oh noes- that was about a year before I came on there. mourns I think I was too much of a n00b to the interwebs to be invited to private rooms. I remember one of my handles only because I had it for so long on there- AgtRadar. (Reply to this)(Parent)

janegraddell
2007-12-02 04:43 pm UTC (link)

I lurked a lot on alt.tv.x-files and its various spawn, and was a member of a bunch of mailing lists--mostly slash- and Krycek-centered--but my only contribution (if it can be called such) to the fandom was that I wrote one (1) X-Files fanfic. It was a Law & Order crossover called "Rebound," pairing Mulder with Ben Stone. I think it's still archived over at Down in the Basement. *checks* Yep, still there.

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	sisterelwood 2007-12-02 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	I'm almost positive I read that piece back in the day. Mainly because I was working on my own X-Files/Law&Order crossover at the time. xD Strange Bedfellows (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Cabin-X goblin 2007-12-02 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	Any Cabin-Xers hanging around? Tiny email group that got very, very silly and now sadly, is ded from apathy. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Cabin-X altera 2007-12-02 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	YES YES YES YES YES The yahoo group is still up, actually. And there's a defunct LJ community. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pyrrah 2007-12-02 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	I used to be on the official X-Files message board back in 1997-1999, mostly fishing for celebrity wars and fanfics. I think that's where I read my first slash fanfic, as well. (Reply to this)

	lcsbanana 2007-12-02 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	oh my gosh, the x-philes. YEAH, HI. --assuming you mean the message board? I remember I started hanging out around mid-97, a little before the AOL message boards switched format and became ugly and threaded. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sisterelwood 2007-12-02 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	I remember reading a little of the message boards but then hanging out in the chat room more mainly because it appealed to my short attention span. xD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2007-12-02 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	I was part of the huge X-Ville wank that went down on alt.tv.x-files. Went by Blackbird back then. Maybe Rhiannon Blackbird. It's been a long time. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pastri_archy 2007-12-03 12:20 am UTC (link)
	How big was it? always shows up to the fandom party late (Reply to this)(Parent)

	andra_dodger 2007-12-03 01:46 am UTC (link)
	I was a member of a huge x-files fan-fic mailing list when I was about 12. It was my first exposure to fan-fic ever. If my mother had known what I was reading she would have had a heart attack. (Reply to this)

	phosfate 2007-12-03 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.geocities.com/lensbeetle/toys.html I made XF toys. (Reply to this)

	lancenerd 2007-12-06 12:15 am UTC (link)
	YAY! And yes, I hung out in those AOL rooms till I got on mailing lists - remember onelist?? Good times! God, that was like forever ago. Also: http://denofsin.slashcity.net/nic/nicolepage.html (Reply to this)