Old Magazine Issues Are Googled Back To Life

Remember the flying car you saw in Popular Science back in high school that helped inspire your career?(although we are still waiting on that flying car) Perhaps you’ve been thinking,  “if the Internet has everything, why can’t it let you search old issues of your favorite paper-based periodicals?” Apparently Google’s been thinking that too.

In a typically academic Google-kinda way, Google announced a deal with owners of retro content by reminding us about the roots of the word magazine.

The word “magazine” is derived from the Arabic word “makhazin,” meaning storehouse…Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles

Titles include Popular Science, New York Magazine, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Ebony.

For those of you who are looking for inexpensive, retro-, do-it-yourself holiday ideas this might make your dreams come true.

See also: CNET, GoogleBlog