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The alt.politics.radical-left group came later and was also a substantial source of both materials and regular contributors. One thing led to another, and e-zines of all kinds many on various cultural topics unrelated to politics invaded the archives in significant volume."
The contents are: E-zines: electronic periodicals from the professional to the personal; Politics: political zines, essays, and home pages of political groups; Fiction: publications of amateur authors; Religion: mainstream and off-beat religious texts; Poetry: an eclectic mix of mostly amateur poetry; and Quartz: the archive formerly hosted at quartz.rutgers.edu.
I was trying to find some place to publicize Crash, a print zine I'd recently made electronic versions of. So I summarized the relevant info from a couple dozen e-zines and created the first version of this list. In the four years I've been publishing the list, the Net has changed dramatically, in style as well as scale.
When I started the list, e-zines were usually a few kilobytes of plain text stored in the depths of an FTP server; high style was having a Gopher menu, and the Web was just a rumor of a myth. The number of living e-zines numbered in the low dozens, and nearly all of them were produced using the classic self-publishing method: scam resources from work when no one's looking.
Now the e-zine world is different. The number of e-zines has increased a hundredfold, crawling out of the FTP and Gopher woodworks to declaring themselves worthy of their own domain name, even of asking for financial support through advertising. Even the term 'e-zine' has been co-opted by the commercial world, and has come to mean nearly any type of publication distributed electronically.
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