~ Early Web Links ~

Stolen Sharpie Revolution, maintained by Alex Wrekk since 2002, is the definitive DIY guide to zines and zine culture, covering everything from making your first zine to academic research on the medium. The site complements the physical book of the same name by listing zine distros, zine fests, and international zine events for newcomers and seasoned zinesters alike.

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.

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.

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.

Bird's Nest Zine Library is an independent community zine library based inside Spark Central in Spokane, Washington, offering a browsable collection of zines, chapbooks, and minicomics. A charming grassroots cultural institution, the site provides hours, address, and ways to support this unique community resource.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.