I don't know why this slipped my mind, but I remembered recently that when I was 10 or 11 - in elementary school - I wrote a zine. I don't remember the contents whatsoever, except that the title was "Have Some Hair!" and featured a caricature of our teacher who was maybe bald? I created it on our DOS computer using the always reliable program, The Print Shop. We used this program a LOT, the most frequent application being printing custom greeting cards. We would make a design using a library of graphics and templates, send to the ol' dot matrix printer, and fold it so that it displayed just like a cardboard greeting card. Why don't I still do this? Making a greeting card, I mean; there are rarely new greeting cards available to buy that aren't full of terrible innuendo or about drinking. I think kids cards are the only ones that get refreshed. I frequently copied things my brothers were doing, and I think my oldest brother did his own newsletters / zines in high school, or read them…
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