Attention: Techers

May 11, 2011 23:40

Link courtesy of Adam Villani, over on Facebook.

What's this? Why, it's every issue of the California Tech.

Potential sources of amusement:
  • Reading old "Inside World" columns and trying to remember the scuttlebutt they were making fun of
  • Reading old letters to the editor and remembering the things we got all worked up about
  • Reading old ads and ( Read more... )

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psi_star_psi May 12 2011, 07:33:58 UTC
I think re-reading those Inside World's would induce too much pain.

Other than the Inferno parody. That one rocked.

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astroaztec May 16 2011, 02:39:37 UTC
I was going to object that 1982 is missing, but now I recall that the editor that year used dates akin to "The 5th microTesla of -90i", so they may be scanned but not recognized for indexing. (IIRC the dates on the inside pages conformed to common usage.)

At the time there was an incident when an LA Times reporter called the administration to check on a story, and when the admin asked for the date of the issue both parties ended up in confusion.

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