~ Early Web Links ~

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.

Mothership Zeta is a quarterly digital science fiction and fantasy magazine edited by Mur Lafferty, publishing original fiction, nonfiction, and reviews for $2.99 per issue. Part of the Escape Artists family of genre podcasts and publications, it features thoughtful speculative fiction spanning sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and the weird.

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.

Common Pest is a personal creative hub by a maker who goes by the same name, hosting self-produced zines, music logs, and various creative projects while learning HTML and CSS from scratch. The site features a charming bat-filled illustrated tree as its navigation, a blog, and a music section covering artists like Tears for Fears, the Deftones, and Twenty One Pilots.

Syndicated Zine Reviews is a collaborative blog aggregating zine reviews from dozens of sources and contributors including Stuart Stratu, Nathan Penlington, Razorcake, Optical Sloth, and many more. With nearly 700 staff reviews collected from across the zine community, it serves as a comprehensive index for anyone wanting to discover independently published periodicals.

The Infinite Matrix is an online science fiction magazine edited by Eileen Gunn, featuring original stories, columns, and criticism from acclaimed authors like Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, Ted Chiang, and many other luminaries of the genre. The zine positions itself as a publication for readers who appreciate science fiction as a serious literature of ideas, with an archive spanning 2001 to 2008.

The official fanzine site for Tamworth FC, a grassroots football club, offering back issues of '4 Bleats to the Baah!' spanning over 43 issues produced across more than a decade. Created by dedicated supporters, the site also references a TFC statistics database and beer guides, making it a charming artifact of fan-driven football culture.

TAZ-LAZ is a community zine distribution network that guides people in setting up their own free zine boxes in public spaces, similar to little free libraries. The site covers everything from choosing weatherproof box hardware to maintaining and restocking locations, making it a practical resource for grassroots zine sharing.

An archived message from the Nettime mailing list, this page preserves the original 1995 call for the first net.time meeting, a landmark gathering that gave birth to one of the internet's most influential forums for net criticism and digital cultural politics. Posted by Geert Lovink, the document is historically significant as the earliest known mention of the nettime mailing list, connecting art, theory, and internet culture through events like the Venice Biennale.

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.