7. What the fuck was the deal early on in the net with 'ezines' and why did they die out?
Long before people had blogs or even homepages, they had physical ?zines.? These were roughly produced, Xeroxed, personal magazines. There was an amazing community of underground personal publishing going on in the late 80s early 90s. My zine was called Prehensile Tales and contained mostly humor. But I used to spend $100-200 to publish each issue and I would only get it to a few hundred people. When I discovered the web, I registered prehensile.com and started publishing to 10s of thousands, world-wide, for free. I wonder if kids today will ever understand how MASSIVE a revolution that was to us. Most paper zines I read went online in the mid 90s and became the pioneers of personal publishing online.
When the web was new, we didn?t have much guidance as to how to do it. Hypertext was new. So one of the most obvious formats to copy was a magazine format. As we learned more about how hypertext and interactivity changed reading habits, the zine structure started to morph and grow until it no longer was relevant.
old prehensile crap:
and the famous "Smack, Crackhead, Pot"
