~ Early Web Links ~

The New York Moon is an experimental internet publication that follows the actual lunar cycle, releasing new editions with each phase of the moon. Mixing radio art, audio performance, guerrilla recordings, and written projects from contributors like Diego Stocco and Peter Kowalchuk, it occupies a strange and compelling niche between literary magazine, sound art gallery, and radio broadcast.

Nice Marmot is a thoughtful personal blog by a U.S. Navy veteran who weaves together firsthand military history, current events, and geopolitical commentary with a distinctly lived-in perspective. Posts draw on the author's own service experience, including time aboard USS Stephen W. Groves during the tanker war in the Persian Gulf, making for unusually grounded and personal writing.

SpaceTides is a free email newsletter published by the Bloemfontein Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, delivering popular astronomy and spaceflight news in both English and Afrikaans. Each issue covers topics like stellar lifecycles, dwarf planets, sky observation logs, and infrared imagery from space telescopes, making it a bilingual resource for Southern African stargazers.

A retired archive from disobey.com, this page preserves two defunct early-web projects: a fiction aggregator called Collected Works and Low Bandwidth, once the largest email ezine database on the internet. The downloadable tar.gz archives offer a fascinating glimpse into late 1990s DIY publishing culture and the fragile, hand-maintained communities that surrounded early online zines.

The Book of Zines, edited by Chip Rowe, is a comprehensive directory covering every aspect of zine culture including archives, libraries, distribution, legal issues, reviews, and history. A go-to reference for self-publishers and zine enthusiasts, it also accompanies a published book available on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo.

Antiquated Future is an online shop and catalog specializing in zines, books, music, and paper goods from hundreds of independent creators and small publishers. With over 343 zine titles from artists like Aaron Cometbus, John Porcellino, and Alex Wrekk, it serves as a remarkable resource for the DIY publishing and zine community.

A library research guide from Salem State University created by zine librarian Dawn Stahura, covering everything a beginner needs to start making zines, from choosing a topic to selecting formats, templates, and printing methods. The guide includes mini-zine tutorials in English and Spanish, Canva and Google Slides templates, a student zine collection, and resources for teaching with zines in an academic setting.

Circulation Zero is Ryan Richardson's passion project dedicated to digitizing and preserving rare early punk fanzines, including a complete run of the legendary Los Angeles punk magazine Slash, making them accessible to fans who could never track down original newsprint copies. The site operates on an honor system, asking visitors to donate to charities like Doctors Without Borders and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in exchange for browsing high-quality scans of these historically significant publications.

The Book of Zines, edited by Chip Rowe, is a comprehensive directory covering every facet of zine culture including archives, libraries, distribution, legal issues, history, and interviews with zine editors. Running since 1996 and paired with a published book available on Kindle and other platforms, it serves as an essential reference hub for zine makers and enthusiasts alike.

The Salford Zine Library is a community archive dedicated to collecting and preserving self-published zines, currently seeking pop-up and exhibition opportunities across the North-West of England. Visitors can browse the collection, submit their own zines, and stay updated on events like Zine Club through this digital home base.