Showing posts with label Space Gamer Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Gamer Magazine. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

A Most Dangerous Discovery - The Way Back Machine and Other Parts of the Internet

Back in the days of the early 2000's I was in academia, like others, searching the Internet with a passion. The WayBackMachine was in its basic inception and I used it for hours in "multi-disciplinary research! (ahem). Well it's way better now as there seems to be oodles more to find and quicker check it out for yourself (see below):  

Examples of searches ..


The generic WayBackEngine link: 
And there is more to be found ... (note, the collections are not necessarily comprehensive - but nevertheless a brilliant time waste, er I mean research resource) ...

Dragon Magazine: 
The General: 


Military Modeller: 
Meanwhile in another part of the Internet - Donald Featherstone's Magazines and Newsletters: 

And finally - the way is was back when board games had printed Zines distributed by postal mail or hand:


I advise you to set an hour timer on your mobile phone before you start clicking on the links - but it may already be too late by now.

Tuesday, 25 August 2020

Online Magazine Repositories: "The Dragon" and "Space Gamer" + bonus UK ASL Fanzine site [and AH General]

 While looking through the Internet I came across these interesting sites: 

The interest stemmed believe or not from reading an old AI article that mentioned Traveller, and many hours later ... tons of good stuff there!

Update: The General https://archive.org/details/general_magazine [Thanks to Ed M's comment below]