ZYN! was a German satire-magazine which was published on the internet only. The magazine called itself "ZYN! - The Only German Satire Magazine". The magazine's editorial office was located in Cologne, Germany. The ZYN!-Magazine was founded in 1992 by Arno Schürhoff (Snorr) and Markus Klein (Sammy) who were follower of various once popular mailbox literary and satire magazines. For their magazine's credo they always used the sarcastic title-phrase "Gnade bringt uns nicht weiter!" ("Mercy Gets Us Nowhere!"). Further founders were Frank Meurer and Jörn Tochtenhagen. The first issues were published as ANSI-texts and later as newsletters delivered by email and also on FidoNet. Since 1995 the magazine was published as the first German satire magazine in the World Wide Web.