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# Spire Magazine: a teenage (mis)adventure
- URL: https://werd.io/spire-magazine-internet-project/
- Published: 2011-09-03T18:36:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:00:46.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, business, dynamix, entrepreneurship, ezines, google plus, spire magazine, teenage misadventures, windows help format, writing, #storycircle, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[![My high school yearbook entry](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/31124310_d9453e9044_m.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/benwerd/31124310/)

I [wrote a piece over on Google+ about Spire Magazine](https://plus.google.com/106119964731604142156/posts/E6zG6sAbJHB), my first real Internet project:

> \[...\] One piece we ran several times was called "What do you do on the Internet?" Nowadays the answer would be "everything", but back then usage was still emerging. So people like Nicholas Negroponte, G.B. Trudeau and Roger Ebert would reply with very specific examples. I wish I still had a copy of these early issues.

These experiences still color everything I do; [you can read the whole post over here](https://plus.google.com/106119964731604142156/posts/E6zG6sAbJHB). What was your first Internet project?