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by TheOtherHobbes
3561 days ago
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Newspapers and magazines used to be unbelievably huge. Weekend newspapers would kill you if dropped on your head from a modest height. Magazines had hundreds of ad pages. Non-ad content used to be much longer. Many features and columns were equivalent to a long-read feature today. This issue of Byte from 1981 (about Smalltalk) is a 312MB PDF with nearly 500 pages: https://ia802700.us.archive.org/8/items/byte-magazine-1981-0... I think the blue light issue may be overstated. I used to read paper into the early hours, even after I was tired and sleepy. I still get a "must sleep now" cut off, even when surrounded by screens. It just happens later. What isn't overstated is information volume. Hacker News and Reddit literally give you more links/features in 24 hours than Byte used to offer once a month. Each item may be shorter - sometimes - but there are many, many more things to read. |
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