An Ambiguous Emergence
Oct. 3rd, 2020 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerWhen a moment’s weakness gathering thoughts to post here nudged me to the point of starting a side project on a lighter-weight social media platform and I supposed I could find “content” there in the form of covers from old computer magazines, I began with a magazine then somewhat short of exactly forty-two years old. In the time since, Tumblr may well have slumped over onto “the long slope down,” but I’m still working through computer magazine covers. Today, the first cover from 1990 emerged from my queue, bringing me to somewhat more than exactly thirty years back.
The decade of covers ahead is already raising ambiguous thoughts, though, aware a good many of the magazines I’m now scraping up images for came to an end in those ten years as “standards” settled over the industry. Whether I grandstanded by not falling into exact step (or just didn’t put in the intellectual effort to get on the “correct” path less beaten) is a question, of course. Thoughts of “an accelerating pace” aren’t altogether depressing, however, and I know at least a few magazines in my sources continue some small distance into the millennium. What might happen when I run out of them at last, beyond perhaps just “reblogged” images in altogether different categories emerging to sudden prominence, is another question.
The decade of covers ahead is already raising ambiguous thoughts, though, aware a good many of the magazines I’m now scraping up images for came to an end in those ten years as “standards” settled over the industry. Whether I grandstanded by not falling into exact step (or just didn’t put in the intellectual effort to get on the “correct” path less beaten) is a question, of course. Thoughts of “an accelerating pace” aren’t altogether depressing, however, and I know at least a few magazines in my sources continue some small distance into the millennium. What might happen when I run out of them at last, beyond perhaps just “reblogged” images in altogether different categories emerging to sudden prominence, is another question.