Just because you referenced it in your thread title and I read about it recently, here's an interesting fact.
The word "magazine" in this sense was coined by a London bookseller named Edward Cave in 1731. He created the Gentlemen's Magazine, a compendium of miscellaneous articles. Up to that point, a magazine was an arsenal or repository of weapons. Cave's intention was to use it to mean a repository of ideas and knowledge, and the term ended up sticking.
I too kinda miss magazines and like the idea of a subscription showing up in my mailbox every month, but I can't justify it. The only thing I've ever physically subscribed to was comic books and after a while they just ended up piling up unread, so I suspect that's what would happen if I subscribed now.
When we were kids, there was another kid in our neighbourhood who's dad had a job delivering unsold magazines to be pulped but he instead gave a bunch to his kid who would go around the doors selling them for 10p each. We'd always get the wrestling and football magazines, my dad would get the true crime stuff and my mam would get her women's magazines. All with the mastheads torn off.
I used to buy Q (music mag) religiously as a teenager, and occasionally bought National Geographic and its history version as an adult, but haven't bought a magazine in years now.
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