> Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful. I used to read ads in magazines and I still sometime

> Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful. I used to read ads in magazines and I still sometimes do. "Believe it or not!" but magazines like Creative Computing, Compute!, BYTE, Run, and other 1980's PC magazines used to be all about the ads. There was often no other way of knowing what new software or hardware was available to buy, especially for smaller companies. You would open these magazines up, and look at the ads, each ad had copy that was either inspiring enough to dream about or cryptic enough to try to envision how it was being done. You were going to buy the magazine anyway so it didn't really matter if the articles were good. A good issue was one that had both. Rarely did you find the stock photo inanity that is beautiful people in a boardroom, all super interested at a whiteboard with arrows that go up, up, up.