>I wasn't around for the start of the Symphony. I was introduced to
>fanfiction in the fall of 2001, my sophomore year of high school. I
>think it was a year or two after that when the same friend who got me
>hooked on fanfics told me about UF. I remember loading the stories
>with a 56K modem and saving them to the hard drive, then disconnecting
>so I wouldn't tie up the phone line.

That was me during summer vacation of '02. Had gone to my grandmother's apartment, in the internet boonies, with a laptop and AOL account in hand. Spent the summer chewing through the entirety of UF, from beginning to what was then the end.