The University of Iowa’s plan to digitize the Hevelin Collection of fanzines helps us understand the Internet.

Quoted: Jonathan Senchyne, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (and a former grad school classmate of mine), made a keen observation when I spoke to him about the Hevelin Collection: Many of the cultural developments we most closely associate with the Internet actually precede its emergence.