• DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    On the other hand, Wired has always been trash. I used to adore starting in elementary school ever since I picked one up at a dentist reception area. Had a subscription all the way up until the end of high school. I loved the articles, the reply to readers at the back of the magazine, but most of all the gadget reviews a la Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly.

    In retrospect it is a luxury lifestyle brand magazine with more advertisements than actual interesting content. The books always felt thick, but the damn thing would become a shitty pamphlet if you take out the ads.

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      1 year ago

      Popular Science and Popular Mechanics were the same, but it really got my interested as kid.

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        Had those too! I was big on magazines until I learned I can get the same information online and get back the massive space I lost in paper.