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Castagraf was an online poetry magazine published by me, Scott Gilbertson, and Laura Solomon who was its editor and all around brilliant leader. I just wrote the code. Castagraf put out six issues back in roughly 2000-2002. At some point between then and 2009 I forgot to renew the domain name and some domain squatter swiped it. I managed to get .net back and continued to host the old issues for a while longer.
Unfortunately Castagraf was published using Flash, which no longer works.
Castagraf took shape back in days when CSS 2 was just getting off the ground. Web browsers sucked at CSS. I was a perfectionist about layout and typography so I used Flash for pixel-perfect results. In the process of watching Flash fail, I became, and continue to be, a strong advocate for open standards on the web. I have lost data to proprietary formats. You will too. Trust me.
Castagraf, like Flash itself, is basically lost to time at this point, still it deserves some placeholder for its existence. Life moves on, this page is all that remains.
Laura Solomon is now co-executive director of Wisconsin's [Woodland Pattern](https://www.woodlandpattern.org/). I currently (2020) write for Wired Magazine and my own website, the one you're on right now.
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