The long-running publication has come to an end.
  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    1414·
    7 months ago

    So basically some fucking shitty investment company bought the magazine and immediately destroyed it. How sad 151 years and all gone in a blink of eye because of some shitty investors.

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      69·
      7 months ago

      Investment companies are often only able to buy other companies like this when they’re already declining significantly.

      Magazines in general are on their way out. It makes me nostalgic-sad too, but the world is changing and this is one of the ways in which it is changing.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 months ago

        Right. I think the point though is that investors come in and they don’t give a shit about what they invested in as long as they get a return.

        Whereas somebody who cared about the company might invest in such a way that the company may survive even if the return is not that great.

        The investors come in and force the company to agree to terms and of course those terms do not favor the company, they favor the investors.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
        3·
        7 months ago

        I agree completely. I loved magazines, I used to buy them all the time, I even went to a specialty magazine shop when I was younger in my home town and it was incredible. Eventually, things started shifting towards online and magazines started inserting more and more advertisements and less content, and then magazines just started dying out more and more. They are awesome part of history that will be sad to see go.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    751·
    7 months ago

    Too bad. I used to love Popular Science. But as time has passed the articles have become far more speculative and fantastical. Same with Popular Mechanics, once a staple of DIY home creations to sucking the military’s dick with MIC dream weapons and UFOs.

    Time for them to die.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      57·
      7 months ago

      Let’s not talk about Discovery channel either, it went from a history/national geographic channel to 24/7 reality TV.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      201·
      7 months ago

      Too bad. I used to love Popular Science. But as time has passed the articles have become far more speculative and fantastical. Same with Popular Mechanics, once a staple of DIY home creations to sucking the military’s dick with MIC dream weapons and UFOs.

      Both were staples in my house in the early 90s. I learned so god damned much from popsci and popular mechanics, but holy lord popsci and then popmech got bad.

  • IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 months ago

    This was my first magazine subscription…followed by the original Sonic the Hedgehog comic and WCW Magazine (pretty sure it was called that, black and white newspaper type print). Sad to see them go, I remember the classified ad area in the back was usually interesting/odd.

    I still have 2 magazine subscriptions that are active. I used eBook readers for a few years, but eventually reverted back to physical print for nonspecific reasons.

    It’s nice having a monthly surprise of sorts delivered in the mail that is not a bill or from Amazon.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
      7·
      7 months ago

      Not inaccurate. The hyperloop was a rebranded vac-train concept from around 1900, and he knew he could not patent it, so he claimed that he was willingly open sourcing the white paper out of generosity. The idea was not feasible then nor now and we can’t tell if he realized that.