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You'd be surprised how little of the niche pre-internet stuff is digitized. There are some exceptions (national-circulation newspapers, some English-language bo
by germinator 2y ago
You'd be surprised how little of the niche pre-internet stuff is digitized. There are some exceptions (national-circulation newspapers, some English-language books), but it's a minority of what's been published.
- telmnstr 2y agoAlso a question of how long stuff will really stay around on the internet.
- philpem 2y agoDepends how many FTP sites it's mirrored on.
- bombcar 2y agoPeople have absolutely no idea how niche things were - every city of moderate size (maybe a million?) had an independent computer magazine of some sort, some literally mimeographed pages stapled together, others flashy magazine quality productions. And they had columnists and journalists and everything. Heady time.
- ghaff 2y agoAnd I'm not sure I can go online and find a complete set of Byte Magazine much less the Boston Computer Society newsletter or something even more niche. Probably I could find a lot of stuff if I went to enough libraries but it certainly isn't all available and nicely indexed on the open web.