~ Early Web Links ~

David Wertheimer has been publishing Ideapad since 1998, making it one of the longest-running personal blogs on the web, with archives stretching back decades. Posts cover everyday observations, technology, diet experiments, and slice-of-life vignettes written with a warm, conversational style.

A research guide from Olympic College Libraries compiling major physical and digital zine archives, from the Barnard Zine Library to the Queer Zine Archive Project and the Library of Congress Zine Web Archive. Students and researchers exploring zine culture will find curated links to hundreds of self-published works covering politics, art, creative writing, and counter-culture movements.

Twilight Times is an award-winning digital ezine dedicated to speculative fiction, poetry, and fantasy artwork, publishing online since July 1998 under editor Lida E. Quillen. Visitors can browse quarterly issues featuring short stories, poems, and illustrated fiction from contributors spanning contemporary fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

OnlyTheGood.org is an experimental art-tech project by Donnachie, Simionato & son and Antonio Riello that automatically classifies news headlines from major services like Google News and Reuters as emotionally positive or negative, then plots the results in real-time graphs. The project blurs the line between digital art installation and media criticism, and was exhibited at a solo show in Stuttgart, Germany, with RSS feeds and a portable graph widget offered for public use.

SciCentral, curated by Guy Orgambide since 1997, serves as a gateway to the best science and technology news by organizing editor-picked top sources across categories like physics, health sciences, biology, earth and space, and engineering. Visitors get a one-stop hub linking to trusted outlets such as ScienceDaily, Scientific American, and PhysOrg, making it an efficient launchpad for staying current on scientific developments.

Electric Velocipede appears to be a literary or speculative fiction publication with a distinctive name that evokes early mechanical transportation. The site is largely a splash page with minimal visible content, but the title suggests a zine or small press journal focused on experimental or genre fiction.

A collection of scanned punk and hardcore zines available as free PDFs, assembled by a dedicated archivist who wants to preserve underground music culture. Highlights include issues of Maximum Rock N Roll, tour zines, anarcho-vegan cookbooks, and interviews with bands from Boston, Philadelphia, Iceland, and beyond.

Littlemouse.fun hosts a curated collection of printable and screen-readable zines covering anarchism, trans DIY HRT guides, anti-nationalism, abolitionism, and meditation, alongside a few original works by the site creator. The collection is a thoughtfully assembled radical library with both self-authored zines and formatted reprints of influential texts, complete with print-ready PDF layouts in letter and A4 sizes.

Arts & Letters Daily has been curating links to the best articles, book reviews, and essays on philosophy, literature, history, and culture since 1998, amassing a remarkable archive of over 17,000 pieces. Run by editors connected to The Chronicle of Higher Education, it serves as an essential daily digest for intellectuals and anyone who loves serious ideas and criticism.

A printable zine project dedicated to raising awareness about plurality and dissociative identity disorder, encouraging readers to print and distribute copies throughout their communities. The site links to research resources like Pluralpedia and the Dissociative Experiences Scale, positioning itself as a grassroots mental health awareness effort started in December 2025.