VC buys and now kills Popular Science. 151 years is a good run. RIP.

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    Granted, the magazine has been a pale shadow of its former self for decades now, but that's solely on their part. You ever dig through back issues of things like Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Mechanix Illustrated, etc. from before the 1970s? Fucking incredible stuff. Not just the "Gee, willikers, Batman! We'll all be driving flying cars in 1970!" stuff that they liked to print, but they had all kinds of amazing how-to articles, that even if you didn't want to build the stuff, it was fun to read. For years, up until he retired, there was a guy who made a pretty good living reprinting the articles from those magazines that were in the public domain. They could have mined that content which was still under copyright and made it available. Yes, of course, you're not going to read the article on how to build your own electric oven from the 1920s and immediately think that you need to order a bunch of asbestos, a rheostat, some resistance wire, and stuff them all into an old Franklin stove you have sitting around, but you might want to read about how crazy people did it. Because it was all in there.
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