Well, being able to remember the dim and distant days of when PC magazines first started having floppy disks on thier covers with a whole 1.44mb of data may not be a good thing. Recently I was looking through my magazines and I realised just how lame the cover disks have become.

Now, before anyone complains I am going to use this months PC Plus as an example – but it is not the only one. Pretty much any magazine is guilty of the same crimes 🙂 PC Plus is a good magazine and one I have bought numerous copies of.

First, looking back in time to the dark ages of floppy disks on covers. For those of you who dont remember it, this was when the WWW was a foundling at best. People connected to the Internet via 14.4 modems. Systems like archie (veronica et al) and gopher were still in use, and the only way you downloaded software was by arcane command line FTP. (None these evil incarnate file sharing things). Continue reading →