This is not so much a history of Kairos per se as it is a reflection upon my experience with the journal over the past ten years, mixed in with some data that speaks to our place in the discipline and in the digital scholarly networks in which our work circulates. The history of the journal, like any complex system, cannot be told from only one point of view: in the sidebar I will therefore suggest alternate visions and versions that can be read as complementary or contradictory to my narrative of our evolution.

I've divided this webtext into several separate but related nodes:

• Beginnings presents an overview of the scholarly development and growth of the journal;
• Design traces the history of the design decisions that lead to the evolution of the journal's interface;
• Review discusses the three-tier review process we use, as seen from both authorial and editorial perspectives;
• Readers tracks the continual growth of the journal's readership based on server log data;
• Links maps the sites and networks that link to the journal on the web;
• Citations analyzes the appearance of references to works in the journal as they appear in print scholarship;
• and Future provides a glimpse of what I imagine the journal will become over the next decade.

Currently Senior Co-Editor of Kairos, I have been a Kairos author, reviewer, interviewer, CoverWeb Editor and Co-Editor of the journal as whole. Although I am not one of the founding editors, I have been a part of the journal since its first year of publication (I contributed a news article and a review in the first issue).

I joined the staff as CoverWeb Editor in 1997, beginning with issue 2.1, although I worked alongside Mike Salvo on issue 1.3 as I learned the ropes of editorial work for a peer-reviewed online journal whose staff, distributed across the country, worked almost exclusively via online communication, only meeting in person at national conferences such as CCCC and Computers and Writing.

This is my Kairos story.