~ Early Web Links ~

Slash Seconds is an internationally edited online publishing project, initiated by Derek Horton and Peter Lewis, featuring text, visual art, moving image, and sound-based work from a global roster of artists, academics, and curators. Published quarterly and supported by Leeds Metropolitan University, the project brings together experimental and critical cultural contributions from contributors like Runa Islam, Michael Nyman, and numerous others.

Created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, Zine Bakery is a richly catalogued collection of hundreds of free zines focused on social justice, feminist tech, digital humanities, disability justice, and LGBTQIA+ topics. The site doubles as a scholarly research project, complete with dataset building, zine visualization tools, and librarianship resources, making it a unique intersection of activism and academic zine culture.

Chaos Theory: Tales Askew is an online zine or literary publication that appears to have been running since at least 2011, reaching its 14th issue at the time of this snapshot. The splash page hints at a creative writing or speculative fiction publication associated with the Genspace community, with a farewell message suggesting the final issue.

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.

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.

Plaintext Distro is an anti-capitalist zine distribution collective that makes low-tech, DIY, and culturally-minded zines accessible to readers worldwide, with a particular focus on topics like right-to-repair, digital decentralization, indie game-making, and software art history. Their catalog features zines from a rotating cast of small-press creators, and the collective participates in events like the Dublin Small Press Fair and Edinburgh Zine Fair.

HTML Zine Club is a community founded by artist and web publisher Nami Kim that brings together creators who make hand-crafted webzines using basic HTML and CSS. Members share personal, experimental, and artistic web documents through the club, which also offers HTML and CSS tutorials to help newcomers publish their own digital zines.

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.

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.

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.