Tales of the Agora Road

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The e-zine of Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe. Five issues so far - all free, all made by the people on the forum.

Issue #5Aug 2026NEW

Vol. 4Winter 2024

Issue #3Jul 2023

Issue #2Jan 2023

Issue #1Mar 2022

Click a cover to open it in the reader. Every issue also comes as a light web PDF and the full-quality original, and has its own discussion thread on the forum.

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Tales of the Agora Road is what happens when a forum full of vaporwave heads, net nostalgics, poets and cranks gets handed page layouts. Every issue is written, drawn and pasted together by members of the cafe: short stories, essays, poetry, galleries, recipes, rants about the old internet and the new one.

Read any issue right here, page by page, like a magazine on the desk - or take it with you: the WEB PDF is light enough for a phone, and the FULL QUALITY file is the original export straight out of InDesign, for every pixel or for printing.

Want to be in the next one? Keep an eye on the forum - calls for submissions go out there: forum.agoraroad.com

Issue #5 - August 2026

Tales of Agora Road: Issue #5

63 PAGES
AUG 2026
WEB 11 MB
FULL 59 MB
the newest one

MapQuest
The Nightmare
The Sphinx
Kushana
The Fox, The Beach, and The Light
Neanderthal Grandson's Farewell To Life
Lostinthecycle
The Rise of OELVNs and their Artistic Significance
My Experience with Vaporwave
Aishuu no mafia
Orion album review
Jupiterian
The Archetypal Slender Man
Pulse, 25 Years Later
Anosognosia
Cosplay and the Obfuscation of Identity

Read it here Discussion thread Web PDF Full quality (59 MB)

Vol. 4 - Winter 2024

Agora Road E-Zine Vol. 4

60 PAGES
NOV-DEC 2024
FOR-PRINT ED. 2025
WEB 25 MB
FULL 87 MB
"Why? Because we are out of our minds... and out of chicken..."

Nostalgic section
'Net Oddities
Opinions
Special: Gikopoi
Anticipation of Future
Beat Time be With You!
Around Agora
Album reviews
Aesthetics gallery
Recipes
Short stories
A collection of vaporwave subgenres
Crossword

Read it here Discussion thread Web PDF Full quality (87 MB)

Issue #3 - July 2023

Tales of the Agora Road: Issue #3

53 PAGES
JUL 2023
WEB 11 MB
FULL 26 MB
"Do you know how alive I am?"

Agora Road's Poetry by WKYK
Christ's Golden Rule, Kant's Categorical Imperative and the leap of faith essay
Scullery Notes on InterTechnics on otaku, "content", and platforms eating small communities
A Schizo's Guide to Entities
Oily Guts, Half-Dick, and the Man-With-A-Million-Names fiction
The Cat Food Sandwich recipe
Agora Radio

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Issue #2 - January 2023

Tales of the Agora Road: Issue #2

63 PAGES
JAN 2023
WEB 11 MB
FULL 55 MB
"Vaporwave? We don't do that here."

Demon Within poem by analpope
H1ssss's World Famous Key Lime Pie Recipe
John Who Loved God fiction by Zombee TV
michiru by L. Rhodes
Ankha x Agora by Remember Summer Days
Days of Future Past by Eric Outfeild
Letting Go of the Past by Aral Khanym
Agora Radio
A look back at the year on the forum

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Issue #1 - March 2022

Tales of the Agora Road: Issue #1

78 PAGES
MAR 2022
WEB 13 MB
FULL 27 MB
OLD! Collector's Edition

Welcome back to the old net - why we've never been more excited about the Internet. The one that started it all:

Neocities 101 raise your #anchor, it's time to <br> waves and surf the net
Internet Ghost Stories evidence of time-travelling, internet-based ghosts
"GPT-3 and me" a conversation with AI
Three poems hey, what can we say, our poets are lazy
Nostalgia
Internet Oddities
Aesthetic Galleries
Opinion
Short Stories
...and so much more

Read it here Discussion thread Web PDF Full quality (27 MB)