Interesting Ideas: Why

Interesting Ideas started as a Xeroxed newsletter in 1989. The idea was to practice desktop publishing with Ventura Publisher, but it also was a venue for subjects too harebrained to comfortably have a place in the mainstream press, where I work.

I never thought of it as a zine because

1. I'm not hip enough, and

2. I never bothered to find distribution beyond my immediate friends and their acquaintances.

It reached the world via the Web late in 1994, a chilling example of the Internet's transparency to marginal ideas.

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