# Popular Science 137-year archive online for free **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313 "2010-03-04T18:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/1 "2010-03-04T18:35:15Z")
> **[Popular Science Homepage](https://www.popsci.com/)** > > Awe-inspiring science reporting, technology news, and DIY projects. Skunks to space robots, primates to climates. That's Popular Science, 145 years strong. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/2 "2010-03-04T19:27:15Z")
Very cool. Love the cover art on those old magazines, I wonder how many issues have the Return of the Airship? ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/3 "2010-03-04T19:38:38Z")
Nice! I wonder how long it takes for current issues to move to the archives? Can’t browse the archives yet but they are still adding functionality. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/4 "2010-03-04T22:51:23Z")
Yeah, I’m looking forward to browsing, searching is getting a little tiresome. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/5 "2010-03-05T02:10:47Z")
I had no idea the magazine was that old. Very cool! ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/6 "2010-03-05T02:13:18Z")
Okay, now I’m gonna recycle that stack of old magazines from my childhood. I think one magazine (all issues of it) will be enough. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/7 "2010-03-05T02:24:05Z")
I gotta wonder. When did they first predict these were just around the corner? Flying cars. Robots. Fusion. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-137-year-archive-online-for-free/531313/8 "2010-03-07T04:52:49Z")
Very cool indeed! I plan to use these quite a bit to add references to Wikipedia pages. There is a wide range of tech subjects from before the web exploded into public consciousness that pretty much don’t exist on the web. And they pretty much don’t exist at all for people whose search skills don’t go deeper than basic Google searching.