[3] On September 13, 2002, a 17-year-old Mills created a one-page newspaper about her day in the computer lab at Perpich Arts High School.
The lead story was headlined "Breakfast News" and recounted Mills had eaten a cranberry-orange bagel but accidentally burned it by setting her toaster to shade four instead of three.
[1][4] Early editions of the newspaper were created "anywhere that had free printing privileges", Mills recalled in The New Yorker; this predominantly meant Concordia College's computer lab at night.
She taped issues in bathroom stalls, then began emailing them to readers via Word document.
[5] Issues are usually released every week, though have sometimes been inconsistent; none were published between May 25, 2012 and September 17, 2014, a gap which Mills attributed to her "first real job".