  In July, 1995 the first issue of D-Lib Magazine was published as an on-line,
HTML-only, open access magazine, serving as the focal point for the then
emerging digital library research community. In 2017 it ceased publication, in
part due to the maturity of the community it served as well as the increasing
availability of and competition from eprints, institutional repositories,
conferences, social media, and online journals -- the very ecosystem that D-Lib
Magazine nurtured and enabled. As long-time members of the digital library
community and authors with the most contributions to D-Lib Magazine, we reflect
on the history of the digital library community and D-Lib Magazine, taking its
very first issue as guidance. It contained three articles, which described: the
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, a project status report from the
NSF/DARPA/NASA-funded Digital Library Initiative (DLI), and a summary of the
Kahn-Wilensky Framework (KWF) which gave us, among other things, Digital Object
Identifiers (DOIs). These technologies, as well as many more described in D-Lib
Magazine through its 23 years, have had a profound and continuing impact on the
digital library and general web communities.
