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    6 days ago

    Man imprisoned in 1900 and released in 1950 wonders why everyone reads newspapers and drives cars.

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      6 days ago

      LOL, newspapers exploded around 1830. :) Maybe, ‘using electricity and driving cars’.

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          Was thinking on magazines standing in line at CVS. They had quite a selection so I assume people still buy them, but who?! GenX is well beyond caring and most Boomers are tech literate enough. Weird.

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            my household still bought comic magazines until recently, only thing that stopped us is that we’re poor and need to save as much as possible, sadly…

            it’s pretty hard to replace a stack of magazines in the loo

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            I remember all those kids going door to door selling magazine subscriptions when I was a teenager. Obviously people still buy them. I think my wife got a Vogue last time we traveled but that was a few years ago and we had not bought one since we last traveled a few years before that.

            So we have bought two magazines in the last five years or so. I would be interested to see just who is still buying them. I read somewhere that they are more popular than newspapers.

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      Man imprisoned in the 60’s and released in the 2010’s would have his mind blown