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OMNI Magazine Remembered

An anonymous reader noted that Slate is doing a bit of a retrospective on OMNI. If you're anything like me, reading it was a treat. At home I suffered through Popular Mechanics, but OMNI was what I wished I had. There's many interesting things in the article, like the fact that OMNI is the place where William Gibson first coined the term "Cyberspace."

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  1. Re:Hot Alien Chicks by gandhi_2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was like National Geographic and Heavy Metal had a baby. I used to love that magazine.

  2. Died with Woowoo BS but... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 4, Funny

    It lived with a solid core of futurism. Futurism is kind of dead now, now that we're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds. The future's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70's and 80's.

    Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate. BRB. Pizza delivery girl is here.

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  3. Re:by 2010.. by AndrewNeo · · Score: 3, Funny

    and global warming will mean no more shoveling of snow.

    Tell that to my driveway!

  4. Re:Hot Alien Chicks by Chapter80 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My parents didn't allow me to subscribe to OMNI because it was a Penthouse publication.

    Unlike my friends, who all had stashes of porn that they hid, I had stashes of Omni.
    It's sad to grow up as a geek.

    Yes, those Alien Chicks were hot.

  5. Re:by 2010.. by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can melt snow in your driveway just by looking at. It may take a few months, 'tho

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  6. Re:Cyberspace was a pretty cool term, by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Careful, with attitudes like that, you may get deported to Cyberia.

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