~ Early Web Links ~

GB's cozy corner of the web blends a personal blog with zine-making, doodles, book lists, and a curated blogroll, all tied together by a warm indie-web sensibility. The site participates in webrings, distributes zines through Ko-fi and ZinesForever, and documents everyday life through short reflective posts.

Bwamp is a quirky personal hub run by an indie creator offering zines, tapes, computer games, and a blob section alongside links to collaborators Blueberry Soft and Xenon Fiber. The mix of physical and digital media suggests a small DIY artist collective with an offbeat, lo-fi web aesthetic.

Leveretstar is a newly launched personal digital outpost with a space-themed aesthetic, built around a blog and a growing collection of personal pages. The site is still early in development, with a to-do list hinting at future sections covering interests, media, dreams, and ethics.

Alligatorzine is a Belgian alternative press e-zine featuring an impressive roster of over 100 international poets, writers, and artists including Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Cecilia Vicuna. Running for 252 issues, it blends text, image, and multimedia in a resolutely non-mainstream, non-profit spirit.

Pavona Voov's handcoded personal site serves as an online diary and junk drawer of thoughts, with entries organized by month and a charmingly DIY aesthetic complete with coffee-stained backgrounds. The site documents the creator's daily life from Australia, with diary entries spanning several months and an ongoing recoding project.

A research guide from Dallas College Library curating digital and physical zine archives, covering topics from Black history and feminist politics to heavy metal fanzines and transgender history. Part of a broader zines research guide series, it connects students and researchers to freely accessible zine collections, preservation projects, and university zine libraries across the country.

A curated LibGuide from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library that compiles digital zine archives, lending libraries, and artist collectives into one organized reference hub. It covers everything from activist zines and science-fiction fanzines to POC and queer zine collections, making it a rich starting point for researchers, educators, and zine enthusiasts alike.

A curated research guide from the Library of Congress listing U.S. and international zine distributors, publishers, and zine libraries for researchers and collectors. The guide serves as a practical starting point for locating independent zine vendors, with annotated links to distros from cities like NYC, Seattle, Oakland, and San Francisco.

Sheryl Vernon is a mom-zine creator whose work covers topics like local Minneapolis news, parenting a teenager, and school refusal, available through Scope Creep Press and a network of zine libraries. Her personal site doubles as a hub for finding and buying her zines, with a retro-styled blog and guestbook adding a nostalgic early-web charm.

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.