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The FDC, short for "Future Disney Cabinet", is a Disney fan group which began in Spring 1992 as part of the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.disney. It started as something of an inside joke, based on the signature block of community member Sean Squier stating that he was the Future CEO of The Walt Disney Company. Others picked up on the idea and took on imaginary titles for the roles they would someday have when Squier takes over Disney. Some of these made-up titles were "Theme-park Walkaround Belle" or "Walt Disney Imagineering Director of Special Projects". [1] FDC members would post to the community from the point-of-view of the characters they were playing; on some days there were more than a hundred FDC-related posts, drawing some complaints from people who wanted to separate the FDC into its own newsgroup. Eventually the FDC claimed more than 300 members and was featured in a small column in Newsweek around January 1994, just above a smaller article about the pending release of DOOM2 (arguably a more important PC milestone in retrospect). The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
Fans of Janet Jackson, at Much Music in Toronto The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ...
Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. ...
An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ...
A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file, or just sig) is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post. ...
The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
In November 1994, a TinyMUCK named "FDCMuck" opened as a place for FDC members to chat and roleplay interactively. It started with about a hundred players, most of whom were active members of rec.arts.disney; it served as something of a refuge from the newsgroup. Eventually it became a tight-knit community of its own, and at its peak the muck had grown to more than six hundred players, most of whom had no prior affiliation with the newsgroup or the FDC. A splash screen in LightWave 3D showing the name of the creators of this program Splash screen is a term used to describe an image that appears while a computer program is loading. ...
In computer gaming, a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon or Domain or Dimension) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games and social instant messaging chat rooms. ...
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In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ...
The muck has been in decline for the past few years, as many players were lost due to unannounced moves of the server to new addresses.
Trimobius Disney Cabinet
The FDC spawned another Disney fan group known as the TDC, short for "Trimobius Disney Cabinet". This group was created years later in 1996, by Sean Squier as well, as an attempt to show the absurdity of one person's claims that Disney had stolen his *MAGICAL* invention; a hat that could be turned inside out 6 times. Disney newsreaders used the group as a way to consolidate and voice their displeasure, through humor and parody, with the overwhelming and annoying posts that had come to be known as Pitzelgate (named for the one who created the rambling posts). The TDC grew in popularity and at its peak in the late 90's had several hundred members as well. TDC and FDC signatures can still be seen in many rec.arts.disney newsgroup postings. The Trimobius Disney Cabinet also spawned several websites to consolidate the many *magical* hat ideas created by the readers. The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ...
For use of the term in mathematics, see signature (mathematics). ...
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