~ Early Web Links ~

Blue Backspace is a small independent publication run by Jillian Caulfield and Quint Iverson, covering games, music, books, film, and television through personal essays and criticism. Hand-coded in HTML as an undergraduate thesis project, the site has a charming update log format and a growing archive of thoughtful long-form pieces.

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is a community organization dedicated to preserving and archiving queer zines, with this particular page showcasing their SWAG store featuring buttons, t-shirts, and zines with slogans like 'Read. Write. Resist!' and 'Queer Space Communism.' A labor of love for queer DIY print culture, QZAP combines archival activism with a small merch shop to support their mission of collecting and celebrating queer zinester history.

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 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.

Natrix's personal corner of the small web, viper.skin is built around a love of snakes, zines, tiny games, and handcrafted internet culture with a deep nostalgic streak for the 90s and 00s web. The site highlights creative work including art, zines, and small games, while Natrix shares their identity as a queer xennial who has stepped away from corporate social media in favor of the yesterweb movement.

Pratt Institute Libraries hosts this curated guide to digital zine collections, pointing researchers and enthusiasts toward archives like the Queer Zine Archive Project, POC Zine Project, and Booklet Library. It covers a remarkably broad range of zine subjects from activism and feminism to punk, comics, and poetry, making it a strong starting point for anyone exploring zine culture online.

Zinesters is a LiveJournal community hub for independent zine creators and enthusiasts, with over 600 members sharing new issues, trade offers, distro listings, and calls for submissions. Posts range from punk and fanzine releases to open mic readings, making it a lively gathering spot for the DIY print culture underground.

Lone Star Stories was a bimonthly speculative fiction and poetry webzine published by Eric Marin from 2003 to 2007, featuring work from notable authors like Jo Walton, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Sonya Taaffe. The site archives all past issues and offers a free PDF anthology collecting selected fiction from the first 25 issues.

Lauren's blog Flotisserie is a thoughtful micro-blog covering media criticism, AI ethics, book culture, and the state of digital discourse. Posts link out to notable reads while adding sharp personal commentary on topics like LLM misuse, influencer credibility, and the erosion of authentic intellectual engagement.

Chapman University's Digital Commons hosts this archive of student-created feminist zines produced through the Women's and Gender Studies program, covering topics like reproductive justice, intersectionality, the female gaze, and women's health. Each zine combines writings and artwork by student teams, making this a rich collection of undergraduate feminist scholarship in a creative format.