Summary in English
On the first EstCon in summer 1998 it was decided that there should be some output for stories from beginning authors and also for news about sf/f/h in Estonia and in the world. As using paper seemed too old-fashioned, webzine Algernon was founded; the first number was published in November 1998. (The name is taken from Daniel Keyes’ story “Flowers for Algernon” that happened also to be the title of the one and only collection of western science fiction we had in Soviet era.) In the beginning there were many authors with lots of stories in their drawers.