[ryukoposting]

Fun fact: magazines actually distributed software on paper briefly in the 1980s.

https://youtu.be/mIGotStRCkA?si=toG5xeLMZzjIGTxC

It's more like a long, linear barcode, but still. More often, they put the source code in the magazine and you'd just type it into your machine.

[lizknope]

I typed in a lot of Atari BASIC code from magazines but I never heard of this. Really cool!

[Ghoelian]

Oh yeah, I forgot all about those! The ZX spectrum was way before my time, but for some reason I still spent a lot of time typing code over from a magazine into a spectrum emulator as a kid.