Maybe four years seems short to you. Maybe you don’t think it’s very long. But have you been here the whole 63,072,000 seconds of it? Only Pif founder Richard W. Luck can claim as much. By our count that’s three fiction editors, at least 1200 Zine editors, over 20,000 poetry submissions, five separate e-mails from individuals claiming to be Michael the Archangel, two server blow ups, and more than six million hits. THE UPSIDE-DOWN CHRONOLOGY OF PIF MAGAZINE 1999 October — Issue #29, our 4th Anniversary Issue, went online September — Issue #28, the Fiction Issue, went online Maureen Murray became an Associate Fiction Editor 75,000 readers visited the site accumulating nearly a million hits August — Issue #27, the Poetry Issue, went online Rachel Barenblat became an Associate Poetry Editor Elizabeth Knapp became an Associate Poetry Editor "Stick It in Your Ear," music reviews by Curt Cloninger, joined Pif’s Commentary section. July — Issue #26, the Theater Issue, went online. The commercial server we leased space on crashed relentlessly, so we bought our own servers adding marked stability to all systems Scott Kampen became the Associate Web Editor Jen Bergmark became the Fiction Editor Camille Renshaw became the Senior Editor of Content Development Richard Luck became the Managing Editor of Technical Development June — Issue #25, the Film Issue, went online Pilot-Search officially launched 65,000 readers visited the site accumulating 600,000 hits May — Issue #24, the Humor Issue, went online (be sure to check out the Masthead A mockup of the new Pilot-Search site was released to the press Zine-X moved to its own domain "Bold Wurg," by Scott Wold and Michael E. Burgin, ran its first comic strip 25,000 readers visited the site accumulating 275,000 hits April — Issue #23, the Spring Cleaning Issue, went online Another new column: "What to Read" by Editor Camille Renshaw March — Issue #22, the Car Issue, went online 20,000 readers visited the site accumulating 200,000 hits. February — Issue #21, the Religion Issue, went online January — Issue #20, the Music Issue, went online Zine-X, the Banner Exchange for Zines, was created 12,000 readers visited the site accumulating more than 100,000 hits 1998 December — Issue #19, the Winter Reading Issue, went online Michael E. Burgin became the Commentary Editor That month 7,500 readers visited the site accumulating nearly 75,000 hits November — Issue #18, the Sex Issue, went online (and OH was there controversy) October — Issue #17, our 3rd Anniversary Issue, went online 5,000 readers visited the site accumulating nearly 60,000 hits September — Issue #16 (open theme) went online August — Issue #15, the Work Issue, went online at www.pifmagazine.com Interview column returns on a permanent basis with columnist Ryan Boudinot and other guest interviewers July — Issue #14, the Alcohol Issue, went online June — Issue #13, the Superstition Issue, went online Writers and artists are paid for the first time Our first daily commentary, "The Bennington Diaries" First "Book Lovers" column, in association with Amazon.com First "Sound Bites" column First "Remote Control" column, in association with Reel.com May — Issue #12, the Suburban Issue (our first theme issue), went online "Micro Fiction" section began, the first of its kind online Debut of commentary column "As I See It" by Daryl Lease April — Issue #11 went online Pif Magazine became a "monthly" Penguin (now called Pilot-Search.com) was created and quickly became the Internet’s largest literary search engine Winners of the 1998 Fiction and Poetry Contest published March Anne Doolittle hired as Poetry Editor Camille Renshaw hired as Fiction Editor January — Issue #10 went online Winners of the 1997 Fiction and Poetry Contest announced First Interview column, although it doesn’t return until Issue #14 3,000 readers visited the site accumulating more than 15,000 hits 1997 October — Issue #9 went online Print version of Pif, titled Poetic Justice released Pif opened Amazon associate Bookstore First full-fledged Commentary section began with regular columns: "Adventures of Pageboy" by Jeremy Worsham, "Stranger Than Fiction" by Stefene Russell, and "Zine Reviews" July — Issue #8 went online April — Issue #7 went online First annual Fiction and Poetry Contest began January — Issue #6 went online Camille Renshaw became a Contributing Editor 1996 September Pif sold enough advertising to actually pay overhead February — Issue #5 went online Camille Renshaw became Pif’s Advertising Director January — Issue #4 went online Allison Jenks acts informally as Poetry Editor Richard Luck continues in all other editorial positions 1995 December — Issue #3 went online November — Issue #2 went online October — Richard Luck founded Pif Magazine, and Issue #1 went online at www.dimax.com/pif

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