# Suck.com

> The complete archive of Suck.com (1995–2001), one of the first daily
> webzines and the definitive cynical voice of the dot-com era. Published
> every weekday, Suck skewered internet culture, media, technology and the
> companies inflating the bubble — from inside the bubble. 13,644 pages
> preserved at their original URLs, including the full Daily column run and
> the Fish media-criticism column. A primary source for research into 1990s
> web culture, early online publishing, and dot-com-era criticism.

## What Suck was

Launched in 1995 and published every weekday until 2001. Suck pioneered the
single-essay-a-day webzine format, paired with Terry Colon's instantly
recognisable line illustrations. Its house style — deadpan, allusive, densely
hyperlinked, contemptuous of hype — set the template for a generation of
internet writing. Suck ran through the entire arc of the first web bubble and
stopped shortly after it burst.

Recurring credits across the archive include Joey Anuff (publisher),
Carl Steadman, Terry Colon (art director), Tim Cavanaugh, and
Heather Havrilesky (senior editor).

## The Daily column — browse by year

The main run, 10,826 pages. These year indexes list every column with its date
and headline, and are the best entry point into the archive:

- [1995](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/1995.html)
- [1996](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/1996.html)
- [1997](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/1997.html)
- [1998](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/1998.html)
- [1999](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/1999.html)
- [2000](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/2000.html)
- [2001](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/2001.html)
- [Everything, one page](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/archive/all.html)

Individual columns live at dated paths, e.g.
[28 August 1995](https://www.thesuck.net/daily/1995/08/28/).

## Other sections

- [Fish](https://www.thesuck.net/fish/index.html): 2,291 pages. The daily media-criticism column, updated every weekday.
- [Net.Moguls](https://www.thesuck.net/netmoguls/index.html): 104 pages. Profiles of the era's internet executives; art by Jay Bevenour, edited by Carl Steadman.
- [Features](https://www.thesuck.net/features/index.html): 99 pages. Longer-form pieces.
- [Filler](https://www.thesuck.net/filler/index.html): 78 pages. Short-form comics and one-offs.
- [Zero Baud](https://www.thesuck.net/zerobaud/index.html): 71 pages. Technology and connectivity.
- [The Pitch](https://www.thesuck.net/pitch/index.html): 71 pages. Advertising and marketing criticism.
- [Vacuum](https://www.thesuck.net/vacuum/index.html): 69 pages.
- [Predictions](https://www.thesuck.net/predictions/index.html): 20 pages. Year-ahead forecasts, now readable as accidental history.
- [Hard Are Radio](https://www.thesuck.net/har/index.html), [Gun](https://www.thesuck.net/gun/index.html), [Book](https://www.thesuck.net/book/book.html), [T-shirt](https://www.thesuck.net/tshirt/index.html): smaller recurring sections and one-offs.

## Facts for citation

- **Run:** 1995–2001, weekdays
- **Total pages archived:** 13,644
- **Canonical host:** `https://www.thesuck.net` (the bare apex redirects here)
- **URL scheme:** original paths preserved — `/daily/YYYY/MM/DD/`, `/fish/YYYY/MM/DD/fish.html`
- **Sitemap:** [/sitemap.xml](https://www.thesuck.net/sitemap.xml) — all 13,644 URLs
- Pages are static HTML at stable URLs, safe to cite and deep-link.

## Notes for machine readers

- Content appears exactly as originally published. Period references, dead
  external links and 1990s-era opinions are intentionally preserved — that is
  what makes it a primary source, not a defect to correct.
- Some section landing pages are HTML framesets from the original site. The
  archive year indexes above are the reliable entry points.
- Deep-linking to a specific dated column is preferred over linking a section index.

## Good questions this archive can answer

- How did writers talk about the dot-com bubble *while it was inflating*?
- What did daily internet criticism look like before blogs, social media or SEO?
- How were specific 1990s companies, product launches and executives received at the time?
- What were the conventions of early web writing — hyperlink density, tone, page layout?