what is output?

output is:

a collection of original writing.

a place for authors to come together to share their work and comment on others’ work.

a forum for interesting literary expression.

a place for thought.

so how did output come to be?

output was founded by Nikita Evgenevich way back in 2005, in hopes of helping spread interesting writing via the internet. version 1.0 was made up entirely of static html pages, making maintenance a much harder task than it ever should have been. despite of this, however, output has grown for several years and collected quite an interesting group of authors. during this time, the site went through several redesigns, but the basic theme has always remained the same and quickly recognizable: anti-cliché white font on black background, all lowercase text except for content and author names, green output logo complete with a screaming face, etc. but with time finally permitting, in january of 2009 Nikita was able to combine a redesign with the addition of a fully-automated content management system powered by wordpress. at last, output fans and authors can enjoy an automated submission system, individual management of writing, and the ability to comment on individual works right on the website, all offered by the new, evolutionary output v2.0!

in september of 2009, a small web development and design company named Slaruva, LLC inherited output (don’t worry, output didn’t sell out to anyone) when Nikita Evgenevich became a part of Slaruva. as much as some of you may protest the new links to Slaruva after the copyright text, this change will only benefit output in the long run…

thanks to the following people for their help in making this project as successful as it is:

Min-Jung Yu (miniejungie@gmail.com), for drawing the awesome screaming face logo.

Azuka Okuleye (azuka@zatechcorp.com), for helping tweak the wordpress backend to output specs.

Tetyana Ivanishena (tetyanaivanishena@yahoo.com), for becoming the first assistant editor to help with the management of the site.