COOL

This is excellent. 

endless fun.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7471/nunj.jpg 

Oh Emm Gee this is awesome! So geeked right now!!! 

Upvoted for SCIENCE!... wait this isn't reddit... just joshin, luv u bubba... coins. 

I find this difficult to fap to. Difficult, but not impossible. 

July 1933 FTW 

I got a free subscription to Popular Mechanics last year and it's taught me one important lesson: American geeks have been longing for floating cars and cold fusion since WWII, expecting Back to the Future II to be just around the corner (everything except the time travel part), but getting skunked decade after decade. 

http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1

An easier way to browse them. 

Edit: That link only goes back to the 1920s, but is still easier to navigate if you want to look at the more current issues. 

Bob55 said:

http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1

An easier way to browse them.

thanks. i was looking for something like that. 

This was really cool. I looked up my birthdate issue, March 1975.

New things included the push-button style TV remote by Jerrolds, pocket calculators, storm doors, and every type of wood paneling you could ever need! 

The only cool new thing for my birthdate issue was the CCD video camera.

I counted like 15 cigarette ads in that mag, and the rest were for cars. Is that all men who read science magazines did back then was smoke cigarettes and buy cars? 

mediaphile said:

Is that all men who read science magazines did back then was smoke cigarettes and buy cars?

haha it's funny cause women can't do any of those things 

mediaphile said:

I counted like 15 cigarette ads in that mag, and the rest were for cars. Is that all men who read science magazines did back then was smoke cigarettes and buy cars?

Apparently so. I saw Canadian Club whiskey, John Deere tractors, Winston cigarettes, and GMC's new pickup trucks.

Men of science and wicked rad mullets. 

Wow. Its amazing to see how far PopSci has fallen in its history. I looked up a bunch of issues from the '70s and they were filled with real science and engineering details. Popular Science these days are just filled with glossy pictures are one-paragraph details. 

quanticle said:

Wow. Its amazing to see how far PopSci has fallen in its history. I looked up a bunch of issues from the '70s and they were filled with real science and engineering details. Popular Science these days are just filled with glossy pictures are one-paragraph details.

Post too long, did not read. 

Dezmo1218 said:

Post too long, did not read.

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mediaphile said:

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IG88 said:

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Bob55 said:

http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1

An easier way to browse them.

bubba you should put this as a supplemental link below the original. 

My birthdate issue had "Earth-Sheltered Houses" on the cover.
As an architect, I find this very appropriate. 

Beatless DJ said:

I find this difficult to fap to. Difficult, but not impossible.

It's all about focus and determination. You must channel your inner fap. 

awesome 

not working???

when i click on any of the results, i get this:

Use the magnifying glass controls to zoom in and out on the page, and the search field inside the viewer to search for text in the currently visible issue.

and just white frames below it. 

madasshatter said:

It's all about focus and determination. You must channel your inner fap.

I don't think that is legal in my state. 

[quote]not working??? [/quote]

n/m 

Look for the May 1974 issue... ignore the fact that it's 35 years ago...

They're talking about *gasp* energy conservation, solar energy, fuel cells, electric fucking lawnmowers...

What was that old saying? Something about those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it?

Yeah. 

Looked up my birth month. Dec 1976. All the ads were for cigarettes and CB radios. 

Cambot said:

Looked up my birth month. Dec 1976. All the ads were for cigarettes and CB radios.

Yep, that pretty much sums up 1976.