Hello and welcome to Florida Fandom on line. Florida Fandom has been around since
1976 as a Fanzine. We have stayed with the times as well as we could. When we started
we would type up articles on an electric typewriter and then cut and paste them together,
using rubber cement, adding press type for the titles and pasting on original artwork.
We would then take the paste up to a printer and have it printed off set. We would
latter move to a computer to type it up on, but still had to cut and paste to put
it together and instead of original artwork, we could use photo copies of the artwork.
Titles could also be handled by computer. We changed from off set printing to the
then much cheaper photocopies (They had dropped from over 25¢ for a one side fuzzy
copy to about 7¢ for a two sided sharp copy). Computers and their programs got better
and we were able to put together entire issue on the computer. In 1996 we took the
next step and started this online version. Our hope were for an ever growing site
retaining the original departments from the zine. In October 2011 we went the next
step...we wanted to do something that would be more like the old print edition -
Back in 1976 Ruth and I wanted to start a Florida based fanzine being both for and
about Florida fans. Having been introduced to Fanzines by John Ellis (of Star Trek
Federation of Fans) and having co-