tristero

[Dennis P. Tyler]

at http://mars.superlink.net/user/cristoph a new net-zine named Tristero 
has been created.  Aside from the name, which is a reference to COL49, it 
didn't seem to have any particular connection to Pynchon.  Below is a 
brief excerpt from the history of the zine explaining the name.
dennis

After several attempts to create an alternative outlet for artistic 
expression called "The Underground," first in high school, then at 
Rutgers had failed, Christopher Kienle changed the name to Tristero:

   "There was no easy way to obtain funding and morale hit rock
   bottom. Shortly after, "The Underground" was considered dead and
   buried and the staff broke off.
   
   "Then, at the end of 1994, after two years, I started it again. This
   time however, I was a desktop publishing maniac and had much better
   tools to make the paper look like a professional publication. We
   needed, however, to disassociate ourselves with the failed
   "Underground," and, after reading "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas
   Pynchon, "Tristero" was created . It took several weeks to complete
   the first "Tristero" but it packed ten times the information in it
   that the previous ones did - and it looked great! To afford the cost
   of producing mass amounts of copies, we looked to local companies for
   advertising space. This task wound up being much more difficult than
   we expected, and the red tape agreements began to swallow us up. It
   was a terrible feeling to think that we would once again have our ship
   blown out of the water before setting sail from the dock. But in
   Spring 1995, I hooked into the World Wide Web and realized just how
   easy and inexpensive (not to mention the readership it would generate)
   it would be to put "Tristero" on-line. After a few weeks of learning
   basic HTML programming, I had created the foundation for "Tristero.""
   
   
   Christopher Kienle
   Editor-In-Chief
   
   Read "Back With A Vengence" from the original Tristero 1995.
   
   
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   Christopher Kienle, Editor/Webmaster (tristero at superlink.com)
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