Zach launched the first astronomical journals: the "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden" and the "Monatliche Correspondenz". We will overview the road astronomical journals have covered, from the age of Zach to the present. Some major milestones on this road were the yearbooks, the first journals, the modern (refereed) journals, DTP and electronic publishing. With the help of a small journal, the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, we explore the question of open access and possible paths to the future as well