Ronald Reagan is in office. The Mets win the World Series. Subway tokens cost only $1, and Gina's Wacky Fun Page™ is founded by a Columbia University freshman as a way to keep in touch with her friends back home in Indiana (a.k.a. The Unfun and The Unpopular).

The original publication does not have a name, a point of view, or guiding principles. Much like the Internet of the present day, it boasts an overreliance on quizzes and consists mostly of mundane status updates – e.g., “Less than 48 hours ago, I received the worst haircut of my life to date. I am holding up well." Although it was created in a dorm room at an Ivy League university – never, ever at any point in its early history is it ever used to rate the hotness of various women on campus.

The inaugural issue features a visual style distinguished by snippets of found text – headlines, sentences, and phrases ripped at random from magazines and newspapers. Handwritten in block capitals, it's Scotch®-taped together on the back of a Columbia Film Society flyer, mass-produced surreptitiously on a Xerox® machine in the basement of Butler Library, and distributed via the United States Postal Service.

Scotch® tape is abandoned in favor of a glue stick.

The publication is rebranded as Gina's Wacky Fun Page™ – a Newsletter for the Nineties.

Its circulation now reaching well into the 30s, GWFP™ relocates its editorial offices from New York to Chicago.

“Send Gina's Wacky Fun Page™ to a Friend" promotion proves hugely successful. Search begins for a qualified applicant to fill the role of Envelope Lackey.

Subscriber Kimberly Dukes – artist, humanitarian, tea-drinker, proofreader, lover of P.G. Wodehouse – is named GWFP™ Person of the Year.

Gina's Wacky Fun Page Inc. announces the relocation of Gina's Wacky Fun Page™ and its wholly owned subsidiaries (Gina's Wacky Resume Service, Dial-an-Edit, and the Fattore Escort Service for Men With Fragile Egos) to Los Angeles, California.

Peak circulation is reached, with distribution in 14 states, 4 foreign counties, and the District of Columbia.  In response to overwhelming demand from its readers and the dictates of Gina's nagging conscience, GWFP™ begins to include footnotes for all found texts and quotations.

Special holiday issue announces the airdate for Gina's upcoming King of the Hill episode and invites subscribers who reside in the LA area to a viewing party.

GWFP™ relocates its editorial offices to swank new digs at LA's prestigious Park LaBrea apartment complex.

Now gainfully employed as an executive story editor on Dawson's Creek, Gina spends most days crying in the bathroom at 12233 W. Olympic Boulevard and has little time for producing anything other than pages and pages of dialogue. The final issue of the Wacky Fun Page™ is published with little fanfare and includes accolades for Gina's work on Dawson's Creek (“I want to congratulate you on getting a prime-time teen to use the subjunctive in a conditional sentence"), a plug for The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, and an explanation of the term “trainspotting" by noted linguist Diane Nelson, Ph.D.