~ Early Web Links ~

Nicezines is a dedicated hub for zine culture, featuring a comprehensive directory of zine printers and companies from around the world to help creators bring their publications to life. The site also covers zine festivals, events, and how-to guides, making it a go-to resource for both new and experienced zine makers.

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.

Littlemouse.fun hosts a curated collection of printable and screen-readable zines covering anarchism, trans DIY HRT guides, anti-nationalism, abolitionism, and meditation, alongside a few original works by the site creator. The collection is a thoughtfully assembled radical library with both self-authored zines and formatted reprints of influential texts, complete with print-ready PDF layouts in letter and A4 sizes.

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.

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.

Written by one of the original organizers of Brighton Zinefest, this detailed how-to guide covers the practical nuts and bolts of running a zine fair or fest, from table layouts to co-operative organizing principles. The broader blog, 'A Note On a Rainy Night,' spans art, books, crafts, music, and travel, but this popular post draws on three years of real event experience to offer advice rarely found in one place.

Aphelion is a long-running online fiction magazine publishing original science fiction, fantasy, and horror since 1997, with new issues released on the first Sunday of every month. Visitors can read short stories, novellas, flash fiction, poetry, and reviews, with new writers actively encouraged to submit their work for publication.

The New York Moon is an experimental internet publication that follows the actual lunar cycle, releasing new editions with each phase of the moon. Mixing radio art, audio performance, guerrilla recordings, and written projects from contributors like Diego Stocco and Peter Kowalchuk, it occupies a strange and compelling niche between literary magazine, sound art gallery, and radio broadcast.

The Tildeverse Zine is a community publication produced by members of the tildeverse, a network of shared Unix servers and pubnix communities. Three issues are available for download in HTML, PDF, and EPUB formats, with open contributions welcomed via pull request or IRC.

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.