"Logo" of boing boing advertised on p. 13 of issue number 4.

"Logo" of boing boing advertised on p. 13 of issue number 4.

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Boing-Boing Begins as a Print Magazine

1988 to 2000
Cover of boing boing magazine number 4, 1988.

Cover of boing boing magazine number 4, 1988.

In 1988 Mark Frauenfelder and his wife Carla Sinclair began publication on paper of the zine bOING bOING, "The World's Greatest Neurozine." The magazine became a founding influence in the development of cyberpunk. It became a website in 1995, and was relaunched as a blog—Boing Boing, "a directory of wonderful things," in 2000.

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