Popular Science: "We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do."
Lots of fun to be had with this - some of the articles on libraries and librarians are worth reading, for the humour value if nothing else. Then when you've exhausted that avenue, take a run down the archives with 'internet'. I particular loved 'And precisely when did the Internet become the all-consuming national pastime of seemingly everyone from high schoolers to Fortune 500 executives' - written in May 1995! And before that by a few months is an article that refers to the net as 'Internet' as in "To attach yourself to Internet..."
This resource is a serious timesink, so be warned!
Lots of fun to be had with this - some of the articles on libraries and librarians are worth reading, for the humour value if nothing else. Then when you've exhausted that avenue, take a run down the archives with 'internet'. I particular loved 'And precisely when did the Internet become the all-consuming national pastime of seemingly everyone from high schoolers to Fortune 500 executives' - written in May 1995! And before that by a few months is an article that refers to the net as 'Internet' as in "To attach yourself to Internet..."
This resource is a serious timesink, so be warned!
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