it was laid out in pagemaker 1.2 on macintosh plus computers and generated camera-ready 300 dpi printout from an apple laserwriter plus. it grew from early black and white content to include color and make use of the growing fields of image manipulation and multimedia. in 1989, verbum held the first digital be-in, which sought to meld the ideals of the 1960s counterculture with the emerging cyberculture of the early 1990s.