Explore the pioneering role of D-Lib Magazine in web-based scholarly communication through this invited talk by Michael Nelson at JCDL 2022. Delve into the evolution of academic information sharing, from early systems like Netlib and CORE to the game-changing introduction of NCSA Mosaic in 1993. Examine the impact of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative and the adoption of landing page paradigms by publishers. Investigate D-Lib Magazine's experimental nature, its peers like Ariadne and First Monday, and its position between a magazine and a journal. Discover the magazine's numerous innovations, including HTML implementation, open access, persistent content and layout, URLs, identifiers, metadata, and mirror sites. Learn about the first issue's significant contributions, such as introducing Dublin Core and the Digital Libraries Initiative. Gain insights into the future research needs identified in the early days of digital scholarly communication.