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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:
An article from a 1979 issue of Janus (a sci-fi fanzine) postulating on the future of electronic zine distribution; the marked section looks like a pretty good prediction of blogs and the blogosphere.
Man, I love crawlin' around the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/Janus_15v05n01_1979-Spring/page/n41/mode/2up
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- A scanned fanzine page from 1979; the selected text reads: "Another solution to the personalzine-scheduling problem will be the diaryzine. The author just up- dates it as she feels like it, and when you call, you get the update-to-date. (It is easy enough for your machine or the author's to keep track of what you received before, so time-wasting duplication doesn't occur.) Fanzines with lettercols could get interesting, especially if the editors provided an open file for locs on the current issue, which later readers would get when they called up for that same issue. Apas could become very odd. Think a bit about an apa which truly does become an N--dimensional conversation without collation dates or horrendous time-lags...and with everyone's file open to every-one else. Hmmm." (remote)
