(19) Ah ship here we go again...Magazine History

Hey what's good guys I'm back and I just wanted to throw another banger your way. Ight bruh so here we go, also I'm bouta go hard on these mag blogs so get ready gang. Nah just kidding guys you know I'd never talk that way haha. Anyways lets talk about the history of magazines so you can get a rudimentary understanding of them.

But before we begin I wanted to share with you the resource from which I derived my knowledge,

https://www.magazines.com/history-of-magazines

I share this information with you because today I will simply give you a synopsis of what I have understood from this source, but if you wish you may look into it more for your own learning and self-development. Moving on, let us begin...

Simply put magazines have been around since the 1600's, but didn't start becoming very popular until about the late 1800's.

Since then magazines have developed into a wide range of categories, covering just about everything from sports, science, women's fashion, etc. Magazines served as a way to inspire, educate, and entertain audiences across the globe

Magazines in the 1900's even started developing into weekly publications and niche categories to target specific demographics, such as National Geographic Magazine which was dedicated to science, geology, and world event. The 1923 initially founded magazine Time was the first weekly publication magazine. The 1954 initially founded Sports Illustrated magazine had a targeted demographic of wealthy Americans as it focused on activities mainly accessible to them such as boating and playing polo.

Well guys that's it, hoped you enjoyed the history lesson, very simplified, but really that's all you need to know. Pretty cool stuff guys.

Thanks for Reading!!

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*Pictures generously sourced from free online materials (seriously)

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