Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free (52)
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Gadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements. Head over to the site and you’ll see a simple search box. Of course, the first thing I typed in was “jet pack”. This, naturally ...
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gRegor said:
:-O
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David said:
Here's hoping we see lots more like this - I wonder if they concluded they could get more revenue from ad impressions against their old content then they could with the paywalls most magazines put in front of their archives? Again, here's hoping,