Secret Society Zine

I've always been fascinated with the culture surrounding the old dialup BBS scene and early days of the Internet. A major modicum of information sharing in those days were in the form ASCII text ``e-zines'' uploaded to BBSes or FTP directories.

Some examples:

http://textfiles.com/programming/guide.txt
http://textfiles.com/programming/maze-faq
http://textfiles.com/programming/zen_life.txt
http://textfiles.com/programming/gravity.txt

What do you think about putting out a semi-regular journal in the format of an e-zine or diskmag, compiled from contributions from /prog/riders? We can distribute it as a compressed archive containing one or more text files, as well as source code and working programs.

It would be a way for us to package and spread /prog/ culture, ideology and software in a condensed and less ephemeral manner. Subject matter can range from contributor's software projects and algorithms, ``Best Of'' excerpts taken from /prog/, stories about The Sussman and his shenanigans, why ABC is superior, why XYZ-system is shit, detailed descriptions of rituals on how to summon the spirits of the computer, and so on.

Due to being non-mainstream method of distribution, the programmers who would read it are likely to be the kind of people we would want to attract and recruit to our organization.

This would be a great idea.

However, SAoVQ, a faster BBS than /prog/, has been trying to release a monthly e-zine as well. The number of submissions is embarrassingly low.

How would you prevent this from happening?

Make it ultra-hipster >>1-san and it will success: the e-zine would be released only through a dial-up BBS and Packet radio/AMPRnet, in 7bit ASCII format.
I also suggest to do it in periods of four months to ensure quality

>>1
It's a good idea. However maybe we should publish it on an as-available basis, since there are only a few of us.

I think we'll likely have more output than the folks at SAoVQ, since, well, this board is actually about something.

Check em

Check em

>>3
You should release it on usenet as well

>>7
Not him, but don't tell me what to do.

>>8
Not anybody, but without usenet release this would be completely pointless.

Usenet? More like unusednet. Why would anybody want that when textboards are available?

Check em

What society is this?

Looks like this was a very successful idea

Op, yes lets do.ot

neat op
You should put that up on instagram
I'm sure there are lots of people that would like to see what you make

By golly this just makes me want to fire up Turbo Pascal and program a pong clone.

Make a zine about dubs

>>17
I tried that once but only managed to make ten issues before everyone lost interest.