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March 07, 2010

The internet was invented for things like this

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Oh, boy, am I going to enjoy the years that it's going to take to work my way through this: Popular Science has posted its entire 137-year archive online, every issue ever published.

It's interesting to see what the future looked like to forward-thinking science enthusiasts more than a hundred years ago, what they thought our world would be like. I also enjoy seeing what was cutting-edge tech during the inter-war years; much strikes me as remarkably modern, or at least recognizably related to our 21st century gadgets.

Posted by Mike Lief at March 7, 2010 08:58 PM | TrackBack

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