Your History of Vidding

[such_heights]

I'm running some vidding programming for the Fanfic track at Nine Worlds. In particular, I'm doing a talk on vidding, which I'm aiming at fans who probably read fic but don't necessarily know so much about vids.

Crowdsourcing a little bit of my research here - I'd really like to hear about other people's experiences of discovering vids.

I'd love to know about the first vids you can remember watching.

a) Which fandoms were they in?

b) Which websites did you hear about them from?
eta: that was poorly worded, lots of you saw your first vids offline via cons, tapeswaps etc. Tell me about that too!

I'm particularly interested in hearing about fandoms other than Western media fandoms, and websites other than LJ/DW, but all responses will be helpful!

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[cosmic_llin]

I saw my first ever vids at the Voyager: The Return convention in Blackpool in 2001. They showed them on the big screen between talks. There were several on the day I went and I don't remember them all, but I'm pretty sure there was one about Janeway set to Hair that I absolutely fell in love with. At the time it didn't occur to me that ordinary fans might have made them but in hindsight I think that was almost certainly the case, I think there might have been some sort of contest involved.

After that I kind of forgot about it for a while (internet wasn't fast enough to watch them) and I rediscovered vids through X-Files fandom in about 2005. This was one of the first ones I loved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9fJ-9iM7vY

I was linked to it by a friend in the fandom and found others through that vidder's website and links on their site to other vidders. I wasn't aware at all of any other sorts of vidding communities or resources and didn't really become aware of them until I was looking for places to post my DW/SJA vids from about 2008 onwards, when I found the LJ vidding community.