There are many electronic publications that specialize in almost every subsector of our economy and almost every interest in human activity today. But how did it all start and what is an ezine anyway? Well, many of those who specialize like Ezine Publishers believe that it is an ezine or newsletter emailed to a subscription list.
Others say that an ezine is an electronic newsletter or magazine, regardless of the electronic distribution method. They say that an electronic publication could reside on a website, intranet system, or be sent over any network, including the largest network or a network of networks; The Internet. In fact, we might disagree with the definition for a moment.
If my record is correct, ARPA hired Bell Labs and Xerox Park to come up with a communication system and they were the first people to call something via email or email. But even before that, they were sending correspondence: online network newsletters, announcements, and discovery notifications in the exact same general format as many of the online newsletters or ezines, which is what we would call them today.
So even though it wasn’t called Ezine back then, because the term hadn’t been coined, it was an Ezine, but email didn’t exist yet. Even the Internet did not exist, but it was an electronic newsletter. As things progressed, it would not be important which came first. And in regards to that, there will be a further evolution of both the chicken and the egg, as the fine-feathered distribution friends still have to cross the street to get to the other side and they will find out how the road ahead (and it could be a track) could be re-paved in the future. Consider all of this in 2006.