InfoMagnet is a program that helps you find, join, search and participate in L-Soft LISTSERV discussion groups. I wrote InfoMagnet over the course of about 9 months in 1993-1994, and it was released in July 1994. InfoMagnet lived for about 2 years. Eventually, we saw the writing on the wall, that the way of the future for Internet applications was using the web, and so we decided to embark on a new list server program, Lyris, which would do everything InfoMagnet and LISTSERV did, except have it all built into a web interface that anyone with a web browser could use. This was the opening credit screen. The graphic above, which we used, was drawn by Susan Lowell's 8 year old (or around that age) daughter. All of us were gathered around my dining table, with crayons, pens and pencils, sketching out ideas on paper. Susan's daughter drew this wonderful drawing of pages flying off the globe toward a person holding a magnet. To produce the final version that was used, we simply scanned her drawing, and touched it up in photoshop (including adding that drop-shadow that makes it look stylized) With InfoMagnet, Jan (my wife) and I spent an incredible amount of time designing the icons. We wanted them to be cartoonish, straightforward to understand, and distincting. I am very pleased with how they turned out. Below is a small sampling of the icons in the program. Making graphics in a 32 x 32 pixel space that communicate concepts like "send email" is really difficult! If you're interested in looking at InfoMagnet, as a piece of history, you can download it here, but it's no longer for sale, since its list database went obsolete in 1996, and has not been updateable since.