A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s
by OhMeadhbh on 4/2/2026, 11:17:26 PM
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by: TuringNYC
I thought of OMNI before anything and was pleased to find it on the article :-)
4/3/2026, 12:58:48 AM
by: defrost
<i>Dr. Dobbs Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia</i> was my goto, I boot strapped my first C compiler from Ron Cain's <i>Small-C</i> code.<p>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C</a><p>* <a href="https://github.com/trcwm/smallc_v1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trcwm/smallc_v1</a>
4/3/2026, 12:45:59 AM
by: watersb
The article states that "Playboy" magazine creators started "Omni", but I'm almost certain it was "Penthouse".<p>I would describe both Playboy and Penthouse as primarily pornography. As such, they were both wildly popular in the 1970s and early 1980s.<p>Omni was not that. I had a subscription to Omni from the first issue in 1978 until about 1983. Pop science, science fiction, fantasy art, interviews and features on space exploration policy... and junk science, UFOs, psychic powers, cults. News of the wierd.
4/3/2026, 12:58:58 AM