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Zines are one of these words that just was never in my vocabulary until maybe six months ago. I had to Google what people were talking about. They’re just cheap
by wincy 4y ago
Zines are one of these words that just was never in my vocabulary until maybe six months ago. I had to Google what people were talking about. They’re just cheap magazines right?
- trynewideas 4y agoself-published print works, one or more copies handmade, the rest duplicated cheaply. arguably a modern successor of 18th-century pamphleting. usually folded and staple-bound, if bound at all. low barrier to entry made them popular with marginalized groups; easily mailed, they were also the nexus of some early fan communities, especially for Star Trek, comics, music, and film. some early web publishing was heavily zine inspired; boingboing was a zine for almost a decade before becoming a blog maybe a more digestible history of zines in the internet era: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/alt-zines-and-memories-of-a-media-transition/ https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/alt-zines-and-memo...