~ 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.

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.

The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is a preservation effort launched in 2003 to digitize and catalog queer zines, making them freely accessible to researchers, historians, and fans of DIY publishing. Visitors can browse an extensive alphabetical collection, search by keyword, year, or place, and discover underground queer publications spanning decades.

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.

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.

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.

This is a Magazine (about nothing) is an eclectic online publication from 2001 featuring contributors, curated compendia, and a live drawing tool called liveDraw. Its playful self-described identity as a magazine 'about nothing' suggests a creative, art-and-culture zine with a collaborative editorial spirit.

A collection of scanned punk and hardcore zines available as free PDFs, assembled by a dedicated archivist who wants to preserve underground music culture. Highlights include issues of Maximum Rock N Roll, tour zines, anarcho-vegan cookbooks, and interviews with bands from Boston, Philadelphia, Iceland, and beyond.

ELPiS is a Web 1.0 magazine celebrating the small web, indie web, and retro internet culture, publishing irregular issues filled with essays, humor, nostalgia, and personal reflections on the quieter corners of the internet. Created by a single author and now on its 13th issue, it covers topics ranging from early search engines to web design history to secret messages hidden in operating systems.

The New Leaf Journal is a personal publication by Nicholas A. Ferrell featuring original articles, curated links from around the web, and a syndicated newsletter archive. This edition covers topics ranging from font reviews and search engine analysis to Fire Emblem gameplay, making it a wide-ranging but thoughtfully written indie web journal.