Pre-Chris Chan Lolcows - Internet Lolcows before Chris Chan

[Coo Coo Bird]

Does Andy Than of thanfiction predate Chris or just take place at the same time?

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Thanfiction

Andy Blake, a.k.a. Thanfiction, is a fanwriter and fanartist best known for his involvement in a number of high-profile fandom controversies. Blake is notorious for being at the center of incidents which include starting a cult in LOTR fandom, another cult in Harry Potter fandom, failed convention organizing, his many fraudulent identities and pseuds, faking the deaths of both his real and fabricated identities, and being witness to the homicide of his roommates/cult members.

While he had previous pseuds in the late 1990s (two of them were "Voyagerbabe" and "Strwriter"), he's most known for joining the Lord of the Rings fandom in the early 2000s as Victoria Bitter. He later went on to use a number of other pseudonyms. For much more, see Victoria Bitter Wank.

Yeah, absolutely pre-Chris.

 

[Rich Evans Simp]

An internet classic (JDR and her polycule)

 

[Mellorine]

An internet classic (JDR and her polycule)

You can't post that and not post this:

Transsexual.org is still up, last updated March of 2009. These days JDR is most active in the comments of 'her' My Little Pony fanfiction account. Just under 1.5 million words of "drink a magic purple potion to become a pony or BURN IN PLANETARY ANNIHILATION, human scum" fetish fic published!

 

[Fag Alert Major Fag Alert]

I’m very nostalgic for PoE, it was definitely the precursor to the Farms in that it was centered around making fun of furries, trannies, autists, and potato moms. Lolcows occasionally posted on the forums like they do here, lolsuit threats and all. Others (like Ben Schumin himself) tried to be good sports. Halal threads, too - once a very active user who was a bit of an internet tough guy was outed as being a furry. The user base seemed to me at the time to be more mature and less spergy than Something Awful. In 2000 I thought the internet as I knew it would last forever. I’m getting all choked up, guys.

The internet was just a more bizarre and mysterious place back then. I don’t know what Portal is, so I’m assuming it’s a video game.

I mean……