Before the days of the Internet, a “'magazine” was a big bundle of paper full of articles you could get shipped to your door, sort of like if you printed out a website.
Wow.
Ok but who actually doesn’t know what a magazine is. They’re very much around, you walk by them at most grocery stores.
Not knowing a home phone or cassette I might understand
Ok but who actually doesn’t know what a magazine is
Kbin devs, apparently.
I’m pretty sure Ars has a minimum acceptable level of snark and sarcasm that needs to be met for publication, particularly with things like Google shutting down some service they’re bored with.
I’m tired, boss
Has anybody printed Wikipedia? It would be fun to have a non-ant-sized “binder” that you could turn or run through to dust yourself off
Check out EndlessOS, it has tools for taking many resources like Wikipedia offline.
What do you think about apps like Kiwix?
Wow that history of Google magazines really encapsulates how they can’t stick with most things for very long.
The internet is turning to shit really fast and is less fun than ever, episode #43364318
Out of curiosity, how many magazines do you subscribe or have you subscribed to on Google news?
My feeling is that real or digital magazines are as useful as their newspaper counterpart but I don’t want that either. A web page with content is perfectly acceptable for the same purpose.
Oh no?!
Aaaaanyways
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google News is known to most people as a big pile of web links, but it actually hosts magazines, too.
Before the days of the Internet, a “magazine” was a big bundle of paper full of articles you could get shipped to your door, sort of like if you printed out a website.
The company announced on a support page that purchased content will be shut down starting December 18.
The new app focused more on online content but kept a spot for your magazine subscriptions.
Google says that some magazines will be refund-eligible because they “contain interactive elements that cannot be downloaded and saved for future access.”
December 18 isn’t just the date for the hosting shutdown, but also the deadline for downloads or refund requests.
The original article contains 442 words, the summary contains 127 words. Saved 71%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
