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Just a Score Back Now
Mar. 18th, 2024 08:49 pmStill working at keeping the queue of computer magazine covers on my Tumblr side project full up, I’d been a bit detached from what’s actually emerging from it. I did become aware, though, that a certain point of synchronicity was approaching, and today it showed up with a magazine cover from March 2004, just twenty years back in the past.
It is something to think back and suppose that while Windows XP and the PowerPC and the BlackBerry were notable pieces of technology back then, some things did resemble today; for one thing, I’d been watching lengthy videos on my computer for a while already. At the same time, though, I’m aware I’m not going to be able to continue in this vein for much longer. The Macworld and MacAddict issues on the Internet Archive only reach the end of 2005 (although there are some 2007 Macworlds there, and I could at least scan the covers of my own remaining MacAddicts and what issues of its successor magazine I received before I let my subscription lapse, all too aware a certain number of bog-standard sneers at Star Wars had got me to the point where I no longer trusted to read them). Computer Gaming World ended in 2006 as I recall, and PC Magazine’s print edition only lasted a few years longer. It would be easy enough to just let the Tumblr lapse; at the same time, I’m aware of a few earlier computer magazines I didn’t get to including before. There is the thought of going back to them and seeing how things will fit together.
It is something to think back and suppose that while Windows XP and the PowerPC and the BlackBerry were notable pieces of technology back then, some things did resemble today; for one thing, I’d been watching lengthy videos on my computer for a while already. At the same time, though, I’m aware I’m not going to be able to continue in this vein for much longer. The Macworld and MacAddict issues on the Internet Archive only reach the end of 2005 (although there are some 2007 Macworlds there, and I could at least scan the covers of my own remaining MacAddicts and what issues of its successor magazine I received before I let my subscription lapse, all too aware a certain number of bog-standard sneers at Star Wars had got me to the point where I no longer trusted to read them). Computer Gaming World ended in 2006 as I recall, and PC Magazine’s print edition only lasted a few years longer. It would be easy enough to just let the Tumblr lapse; at the same time, I’m aware of a few earlier computer magazines I didn’t get to including before. There is the thought of going back to them and seeing how things will fit together.