R. I. P.

In memoriam:

Convergence Magazine, died in childbirth, early 1994. Before most people had heard of the web, I got together with my housemates and a friend or two of theirs to create a magazine that would be dedicated to art in the digital age, but not the technology itself. At their urging, I promoted it on the net before we were ready, going so far as to register with the Library of Congress and talk with a correspondant from the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

Alas, the magazine never saw the light of day. This is expecially disappointing since we were to have several articles by relatively prominent folks and it would have been one of the very first magazines ever published on the World Wide Web. When Wired first planned to set up their site, they wrote to me for advice. (I don't have anything to do with their site, however.)

I should point out that there is now another magazine on the web (if only one) called Convergence: The Journal of research into new media technologies currently being published from the University of Luton. Indeed, if you found this page, you may be interested in theirs.

Doubly unfortunate is the fact that, to this day, I am still getting subscription requests for Convergence. I got fifty-eight subscriptions after my week long vacation Christmas of 1995. I have done multiple searches for all the pointers leading to Convergence, but they seem to be self replicating. Subscriptions from outside the United States seem especially common.

At this point, I like to think of it as something of a net legend. It seems to be propagating without the conscious effort of anyone actually involved with it.

Please, if you ever see any mention of our Convergence as an active magazine, please notify whoever posted the info that Convergence is defunct and point them to this page. Thank you.

-Glenn Peters

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