Creative writing online, the early days

No, Suck didn’t publish literature, but it deserves a tip of the hat from anyone who does so online, and for that matter from anyone who reads or writes same. It was the first site to make hay by publishing creative writing, and by so doing, it got a lot of people used to the idea that they could use a computer to read something other than email and the news. And it set another precedent for the online lit set, by both publishing, and creating a broad readership, for a form—short humor pieces—which few other publications cared about. Anyway, enough of my yakkin’, here’s the link: Matt Sharkey’s long-winded, and three year-old, but still worthwhile history of Suck .