Of all the sections, this one should be the most out-of-date and incomplete. Essentially this section will be all the "Electronic Magazines" or "E-Zines" that started out on BBSes and spread to the Internet.
Instead of losing individual textfiles in the sea of BBSes, many writers chose instead to move to the "Magazine" model, where they would band together textfiles and release them as a group. This strengthened the chances of the files surviving and also made for impressive file sizes, a sign of quality to people browsing sites.
I defer a lot of my knowledge about post 1992 e-zines to mogel, who has been a central pillar of electronic magazines since just beyond that time, and who runs a companion site to textfiles.com called scene.textfiles.com. Mogel's comments will augment and sometimes replace mine in the descriptions of the different magazines below.
| Filename |
Size |
Description of the Textfile |
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1A| Phirst Amendment (1993) | | ||||
40HEX| 40HEX Virus Magazine (1992-Present) | | ||||
411| The 411 Newsletter (1994) | | ||||
ABBA| The Anti-Big Brother Association (1993-1994) | | ||||
AFTERSHOCK| AfterShoCk! (1993) | | ||||
ALIVE| Alive Virus Magazine (1994) | | ||||
ANARCHYTODAY| Anarchy Today (1989) | | ||||
ANE| Anarchy N' Explosives (1989) | | ||||
ANGST| Angst Digest (1994) | | ||||
ANUS| American Nihilist Underground Society (1989) | | ||||
AOTD| The Art of Technology Digest (1992) | | ||||
ARMADILLO| Armadillo Culture (1994) | | ||||
ARTEFACTED| ArtFACTed (1994) | | ||||
ASKI| Associated Spread of the Knowledge of Information (1992-1993) | | ||||
ASS| Aryan Sekret Service (Unknown) | | ||||
ASTRAL| Astral Avenue (1986-1987) | | ||||
AT| Anarchistic Tendencies (1988-1989) | | ||||
ATHENE| The ATHENE Amateur Creative Writing Magazine (1989-1990) | | ||||
ATI| Activist Times, Inc. (1988-1993) | | ||||
ATMOSPHERICS| Atmospherics (1994-1997) | | ||||
AWA| Anti-Warez Association (1993) | | ||||
BAD| Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade (1990-1992) | | ||||
BADSECTOR| Bad Sector (1994) | | ||||
BANGSONIC| Bang Sonic Digest (1994-1995) | | ||||
BE| Barata Eletrica (1994-1995) | | ||||
BITSBYTES| Bits And Bytes Online (1993-1994) | | ||||
BLAH| Big Long and Hairy (1992-1994) | | ||||
BLAST| Blast FAMY (1994) | | ||||
BLOOBALL| BLOOBALL (1993) | | ||||
BOOM| Things That Go Boom and Other Stuff (1994-1995) | | ||||
BOW| The Brotherhood of Warez (1994-1999) | | ||||
BRAILLE| The Braille Monitor (1994-1995) | | ||||
BREAKAWAY| Breakaway Magazine (1994) | | ||||
BREATHE| Breathe E-zine (1996-1997) | | ||||
| BRITCOMEDY | |||||
BTR| Beneath the Remains (1994-1995) | | ||||
| BTW | |||||
C101| Cracking 101 (1990) | | ||||
CDUGD| Computer Down-Under-Ground Digest (1991-1992) | | ||||
CHACKING| Commodore Hacking Magazine (1992-Present) | | ||||
CHALISTI| Chalisti (German) (1990-1991) | | ||||
| CHAOS | |||||
CHAOSCORNER| Chaos Corner (1992-1996) | | ||||
CHEAPTRUTH| Cheap Truth (1983-1986) | | ||||
CHN| Connecticut Hacker Newsgroup (Unknown) | | ||||
CHURCHOFVR| The Church of Virtuality Reality (1992) | | ||||
CIA| Center of Intelligent Anarchists (1994) | | ||||
CITRO| Citronic Journal (1994) | | ||||
COMNET| The Com Net News (CNN) (1994) | | ||||
COMSEC| The Communications Security Bulletin (1984-Present) | | ||||
CONSORTIUM| The Consortium (1994) | | ||||
CORE| CORE Magazine (1993) | | ||||
COTNO| Communications of the New Order (1993-1995) | | ||||
| COUSINS | |||||
CPI| Corrupted Programing International (1989) | | ||||
CRANK| Crank (1994-1995) | | ||||
CRASH| The Crash Update (1991-1993) | | ||||
CRISNEWS| Computer Virus Research and Information Service (1993-1994) | | ||||
CRITICAL| Critical Mass: A Technical Textfile Newsletter (1990-1992) | | ||||
| CROPDUSTER | |||||
CRYPT| Crypt Newsletter (1992-1993) | | ||||
CUD| The Computer Underground Digest (1990-1998) | | ||||
CULTDEADCAT| Cult of the Dead Cat (1994-1995) | | ||||
| CURRENTCITIES | |||||
CV| Cyberspace Vanguard (1992-1993) | | ||||
CYBERPHUCK| Cyber Phuck Magazines (Unknown) | | ||||
| CYBERRIGHTS | |||||
| CYBERSENIOR | |||||
DAMMIT| Demented Anarchists and Malicious Malignant Inventors of Terror (1992) | | ||||
DARGONZINE| DargonZine (1988-Present) | | ||||
DBC| Durex Blender Corporation (1988-1992) | | ||||
DDE| Distorted Digital Erection (1994) | | ||||
| DELAWARERAIL | |||||
DELIRIUM| Delirium (1994) | | ||||
| DEMONEWS | |||||
DFP| Digital Free Press (1992) | | ||||
DFS| Damned Fucking Shit (1993-1996) | | ||||
DIGITALMURDER| Digital Murder (1991) | | ||||
DMP| Digital Media Perspective (1994-1995) | | ||||
DSP| Dead Smoking Punx (Unknown) | | ||||
DUB| DUB: The Monitor of Hip Hop Culture in Mainstream Media (1994) | | ||||
DUMB| Dumb (Unknown) | | ||||
DWE| Dark World Enterprises (1993) | | ||||
EFF| EFFector Online (Formerly EFF News) (1991-1993) | | ||||
EJOURNAL| EJournal (1991-1996) | | ||||
ELEKTRIX| Elektrix Magazine (1990) | | ||||
EMPIRE| The Empire Times (1992-1995) | | ||||
ETCETERA| Et Cetera: The Zine of Everything and Nothing (1994-1995) | | ||||
| EUTHANASIA | |||||
FATNIPPLES| Fat Nipples E-Zine (1994) | | ||||
FBI| Freakers Bureau Incorporated (1991) | | ||||
FINGALS| Fingal's Cave (1994) | | ||||
| FJOURNAL | |||||
| FOL | |||||
FONGU| Fongu Magazine (1996) | | ||||
FREEDOM| Freedom Magazine (1992-1993) | | ||||
FROGFARM| The Frog Farm (1993) | | ||||
FRONTIER| Frontier Console Magazine (1994) | | ||||
FSFNET| BITNET Fantasy-Science Fiction Fanzine (1985-1988) | | ||||
FUCK| Fucked Up College Kids (1993-2000) | | ||||
FUCT| FUCT Magazine (1993) | | ||||
FULLDISC| Full Disclosure (1991) | | ||||
FUNHOUSE| Funhouse: The Cyberzine of Degenerate Pop Culture (1992-1993) | | ||||
GLOBETROTTER| Globe Trotter (1988) | | ||||
GWD| Greeny World Domination (1993-Present) | | ||||
HAA| Hackers and Anarchists Anonymous (Unknown) | | ||||
HACK| Hacking and Computer Crashing (1984) | | ||||
HAKD| H0'z ASCII/Anarchy Komputers and Drugz (1994) | | ||||
HARDCORE| HardC. O. R. E. (1993-1994) | | ||||
| HAROLDHERALD | |||||
HCH| Hard Core Hackers (1994) | | ||||
HDIRECTORY| The Hacker's Directory (Unknown) | | ||||
HDK| Hippie Dippie Klub (1993) | | ||||
| HELTERSKELTER | |||||
HNET| H-Net Magazine (1990) | | ||||
HOE| The Hogs of Entropy (1994-Present) | | ||||
HTOMC| The Holy Temple of Mass Consumption (1993) | | ||||
HU| Hackers Unlimited (1989) | | ||||
HUMUS| The Humus Report (1988-1992) | | ||||
HW| The Hacker's Warehouse (1994) | | ||||
IBFT| I Bleed for This? (1994-1996) | | ||||
IBP| Igh Bah Poo (1993-1995) | | ||||
ICS| Information, Communication, Supply (1993-1995) | | ||||
IDCIYRT| I Don't Care if You Read This (Unknown) | | ||||
ILLEGAL| Illegal: The Cracker Magazine (1985-1988) | | ||||
| IMPRIMIS | |||||
INFORMATIK| Informatik: The Journal of Priv. Information (1991-1992) | | ||||
INTERFACE| Interface by Ben Henry (1993-1995) | | ||||
INTERMOSH| InterMOSH Magazine (1992) | | ||||
INTERTEXT| InterText (1991-1993) | | ||||
INTERZINE| InterZine (1993) | | ||||
IRG| The International Rogues Guild (1990-1991) | | ||||
JAUC| The Journal of American Underground Computing (1994-1995) | | ||||
JOAUC| The Journal of American Undergound Computing (1994) | | ||||
JONAS| Jonas (1995-1997) | | ||||
KCAH| K.C.A.H. (1990) | | ||||
KGB| K-Rad GNUz and Bullshit (1994) | | ||||
KLINED| K-Lined (Unknown) | | ||||
KULTCHA| The Issue of Kultcha and the Culture of Issue (1986) | | ||||
LNOIZ| Line Noiz (1993-1995) | | ||||
LNR| Love N' Rage Electronic Edition (1993) | | ||||
LOD| The Legion of Doom/Hacking Technical Journal (1987-1993) | | ||||
LOL| Legions of Lucifer (1990-1991) | | ||||
| LOUDLYRIX | |||||
LPF| The League for Programming Freedom (1991-1992) | | ||||
LWS| The Adventures of Lone Wolf Scientific (1991) | | ||||
M00SE| M00se Dr0pings Magazine (1988-1990) | | ||||
MACOD| MACROEZ OF DISTRUKSION (Unknown) | | ||||
MAGIK| Master Anarchists Giving Illicit Knowledge (1993) | | ||||
METALMADNESS| Metal Madness (1993) | | ||||
METAZINE| Metazine: The Warez Review (Unknown) | | ||||
MHPC| Midnight Hackers Private Club (Unknown) | | ||||
MIKE| Mike's Madness (1989-1990) | | ||||
MILK| Mighty Illicit Liquid Kollection (1994-1995) | | ||||
MINDCRIME| Mindcrime (1994) | | ||||
MINDFLOW| MindFlow (1994) | | ||||
| MINDWARP | |||||
MINIAIR| The mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR") (1994-1995) | | ||||
MISC| Unsorted Magazine Directory (Kind of like a Magazine Rack) | | ||||
MISFITS| The Misfits (1992-1993) | | ||||
| MLH | |||||
MODERNZ| The Phoenix/Panther Modernz Magazine (1990-1992) | | ||||
MOGEL| Some of Mogel's Works | | ||||
MONEYINC| Money Incorporated Textmag (1994-1996) | | ||||
MORETHANONE| More Than One (1992-1994) | | ||||
MORGUE| The Morgue Text Reader (1993) | | ||||
| MORPO | |||||
NARC| Nuclear Phreakers Hackers Carders (1989) | | ||||
NASTY| National Alliance of Superior Technological Youth (1991) | | ||||
NETCOMMUNITY| Networks and Community, Compiled by Sam Sternberg (1993-1994) | | ||||
| NEUROCACTUS | |||||
NFX| The New Fone Express Electronic Edition (1991) | | ||||
NHA| The Network Hackers' Alliance (1991) | | ||||
NIA| Network Information Access (1989-1991) | | ||||
| NOF | |||||
NONSERVIAM| Non Serviam (1993) | | ||||
NOWAY| No Way (In French) (1994) | | ||||
NSA| National Security Anarchists (1991) | | ||||
NUKE| The NuKE Info Journal (1993-1994) | | ||||
| NULLIFIDIAN | |||||
NUTWORKS| Nutworks Magazine (1985-1990) | | ||||
| NWR | |||||
NYQUIL| Nyquil (Unknown) | | ||||
OCAP| Orange Cats Are Pretty (1993) | | ||||
OCEANIAORACLE| Oceania Oracle (1994) | | ||||
ONESHOTS| Zines That Only Produced One Issue | | ||||
PAB| Pete and Bernie's Philosophical Steakhouse (1994-1995) | | ||||
PACS| Public-Access Computer Systems News (1990-1995) | | ||||
PANARCHY| Practical Anarchy (1992-1993) | | ||||
PAO| Practical Anarchy Online (1992-1994) | | ||||
PARTHENOGENESIS| Parthenogenesis (1993) | | ||||
PEZ| Poop Enlightenment Zine/Really Elite Doodz (1994-1995) | | ||||
PFP| The Peter Funk Press (1994) | | ||||
PHANTASY| PHANTASY: From the International Information Retrieval Guild (1990-1993) | | ||||
PHATE| Phreaking Hacking and Terrorism Enterprises (1992-1993) | | ||||
PHRACK| PHRACK Magazine (1985-Present) | | ||||
PHUCKED| Phucked Phreak Productions (1991) | | ||||
PHUK| Phreakers/Hackers in the United Kingdom (1994) | | ||||
PHUN| Phreakers Hackers Underground Newsletter (1988-1990) | | ||||
PIRATE| PIRATE Magazine (1989-1990) | | ||||
PLA| The Phone Losers of America (1994-1995) | | ||||
POETSCORNER| The Poets' Corner by Keven Keyser (1987-1989) | | ||||
POUPEY| Poor Old Ugly Pompous Electronic Yams (Unknown) | | ||||
PPIC| Phose Phree Inner Circle (1994) | | ||||
PPP| Phuckin' Phield Phreakers (aka Outdoor Life) (1989) | | ||||
PRIVATELINE| Private Line: A Journal Of Inquiry into the Phone System (1994) | | ||||
PU| Propoganda Unlimited (1994-1995) | | ||||
PUCKTALES| Pucktales (Unknown) | | ||||
PUD| Pizza Underground Digest (1993) | | ||||
PURPS| The Purple Thunderbolt of SPODE (1990-1992) | | ||||
RAH| Random Access Humor (1993) | | ||||
RAT| Rebel Anarchistic Tendencies (1990-1993) | | ||||
REVIVAL| Revival Magazine (1993-1994) | | ||||
RICUS| Rhode Island Computer Underground Society Newsletter (1992-1993) | | ||||
RRR| Randy's Rumor Rag (1991-1995) | | ||||
SARKO| Sarko (1994) | | ||||
SCAM| SCAM! Magazine (1993) | | ||||
SCREAM| Scream Baby (1992-1995) | | ||||
| SCROLLS | |||||
SFFS| The BITNET Fantasy-Science Fiction Fanzine (1986-1988) | | ||||
SHA| Swedish Hacker's Association Newsletter (1990) | | ||||
SIA| Slightly Insane Anarchists (Unknown) | | ||||
SLAP| SLAP (1994) | | ||||
| SLI | |||||
SOA| The Screams of Abel (1992-1993) | | ||||
SOB| The Soverigns of Bell (1993-1995) | | ||||
SOS| The Scrolls of Serenia (Unknown) | | ||||
| SOSHUTUP | |||||
SOUB| State of UnBeing (1994-Present) | | ||||
SPACEPOWER| Space Power Digest (1993) | | ||||
SPHEAR| SPHEAR Digizine (1994) | | ||||
| SPILLEDINK | |||||
| SRJ | |||||
SSN| Sub-Space News (1992) | | ||||
| STB | |||||
| STTS | |||||
SUB| Subterranian Technologies Magazine (1994) | | ||||
SUPERSTUPID| The Super Stupid Slambook (1994) | | ||||
SURFPUNK| The Surfpunk Technical Journal (Mailing List) (1992-1994) | | ||||
TAMERSHREW| The Tamer Shrew (Unknown) | | ||||
TANJ| There Ain't No Justice (1988-Present) | | ||||
TAP| TAP Magazine Online (1990) | | ||||
| TAPROOT | |||||
TAYLOROLOGY| Taylorology (1993-2000) | | ||||
TCWF| The Toxic Custard Workshop Files (1990-Present) | | ||||
| TELETIMES | |||||
TFJ| The Free Journal ASCII Edition (1991-1992) | | ||||
THINKING| Mark Perkel's Thinking Magazine (1991-1992) | | ||||
THO| The Hidden Obvious (1994) | | ||||
| TIA | |||||
TLS| The Lawless Society (1991-1992) | | ||||
TNA| Technical News Association (1993) | | ||||
| TOLMES | |||||
TOT| Tricks of the Trade (1994-1996) | | ||||
| TOXICSHOCK | |||||
TRI| The Remote Informer (1987) | | ||||
TRUECP| True Cyberpunk (1993) | | ||||
TSR| The Syndicate Report (1986-1989) | | ||||
TUC| The Undiscovered Country (1992-1994) | | ||||
TURBO| Turbo Zine (Unknown) | | ||||
TWAT| The Winner ANSI Team (1994) | | ||||
TWILIGHTWORLD| Twilight Zone (1993-1995) | | ||||
TYME| Twisted Young Minds Expand (1994-1996) | | ||||
UCPH| Underground Community of Phreaks and Hackers (1994) | | ||||
ULTRA| Underground Legion of Terroristic Research Activists (1991) | | ||||
UNPLASTIC| The Unplastic News (1991-1992) | | ||||
UPI| United Phreakers Incorporated (1990-1992) | | ||||
UPPER10| Upper10 (Unknown) | | ||||
URBAN| Undaground Rap Blastin Asiatic Newsletter (1994) | | ||||
USU| United States Underground (1993-1994) | | ||||
UTM| Underground Technologies Magazine (1994) | | ||||
UXU| Underground eXperts United (1991-Present) | | ||||
VAS| Vaginal and Anal Secretions Newsletter (1992-1994) | | ||||
VOICES| Voices From the Net (1993) | | ||||
VOMIT| Vomit (Unknown) | | ||||
W0OL| w0ol Magazine (Unknown) | | ||||
WAREZ| The Warez Magazine (Unknown) | | ||||
WHATEVER| Whatever Ramblings by Alex Swain (1992-1995) | | ||||
WHIRLWIND| Whirlwind (1994-1995) | | ||||
WORDOFGOD| The Word of God (1989) | | ||||
WORLDVIEW| Der Weltanschauung Magazine (The WorldView) (1991-1992) | | ||||
WPOS| Worthless Piece of Shit (1994) | | ||||
WWNEWS| Weakly Weird News (1994) | | ||||
XENO| Xenocide / Electronic Deicide (1992-1993) | | ||||
XENON| Xenon Foundation / The X Files (1993-1994) | | ||||
YGDRASIL| YGDRASIL Magazine: A Journal of the Poetic Arts (1994-1996) | | ||||
ZIGZAG| ZigZag Magazine (1993-1994) | | ||||
ZNET| Z*NET Magazine: The Online Atari 8-Bit Resource (1986-1992) | | ||||
electron.jnl| 38953 | What is an Electronic Journal? By John Franks, Northwestern University, 1993
| zineguide.txt | 23916 | San Francisco Zine Publishers Resource Guide, by R. Seth Friedman of Food for Thought Industries
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