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Wow, this is fantastic! Like falling down a rabbit hole. I spent the afternoon aimlessly doing searches to dig up fun articles, like these ones: * Graphic disp
by pncnmnp 2y ago
Wow, this is fantastic! Like falling down a rabbit hole. I spent the afternoon aimlessly doing searches to dig up fun articles, like these ones:
* Graphic displays for home computers (https://books.google.com/books?id=OQEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA109&pg=PA108#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=OQEAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA109&pg=...)
* A 1900 article on the New York Botanical Garden (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_57/June_1900/The_New_York_Botanical_Garden https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...)
* Scenes on the Planets, 1900 (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_56/January_1900/Scenes_on_the_Planets https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...)
* A 1915 article on Rutherford's ideas on atomic structure (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_87/August_1915/The_Constitution_of_Matter_and_the_Evolution_of_the_Elements https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...)
* The discovery of radium; they even hint at what we now know as radon (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_63/May_1903/A_New_Source_of_Heat:_Radium https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...)
* William Hawkins describing the TRS-80 and Apple-II in 1978 (https://books.google.com/books?id=qQAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA6&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=qQAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA6&pg=PA...)
I think it’s a great time to build a retro magazine search engine. We also have Byte magazine's archive (https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm) and CACM's old archive in public access (https://dl.acm.org/magazine/cacm https://dl.acm.org/magazine/cacm).