Remember OMNI magazine? The one with the vvvveerrrryyyy late 70’s computer age affectation font used in its logo:
I think I mostly encountered this magazine in the dusty corners of some of the more nebbish teachers’ classrooms in junior high (that’s middle school to you whippersnappers). I didn’t read it much then. I don’t even know why because it seems to have been exactly square in the middle of what would pique my interest. Perhaps it was too sciency and not enough fantasy for my liking. At any rate, it was reportedly one heck of a rag in its day. I think it was mothballed in the late 1990’s but can’t be arsed to Wikipedia up an answer.
Side note: can we use wikipedia as verb in the same way we use google? Because I tend to want to.
Right. So. The point of all of this is that about a month ago there was a “reboot” of OMNI as a web publication. You can read it here[1]. And, folks, let me tell you. It is freaking awesome! I’ve been loving it. It sits in my RSS reader and sends me goodness about once a day. In the event you were a fan of OMNI back in the day and/or enjoy the intersection of science, technology, culture, design, and fiction then I highly recommend you check it out.
No shiz? I loved Omni.
If I recall correctly, it was published by Bob Guccioni of Penthouse fame.
Omni was always at the top of my list too
Wikipedia agrees. Also, shut down in 1998 after his wife died in 1997. She was the founder/originator. Interesting stuff. Perhaps the nebbish ones weren’t so nebbish after all…
Oh, and I failed to mention it but I think it also graced a number of pediatricians’ waiting rooms. Perhaps all waiting rooms, but I spent most of my formative years under the care of pediatricians so that’s my experience. I read this when Highlights became insipid.
Also worthy of note, it’s credited with the emergence of computer viruses, after running an article on a group of programmers who played a game they called ‘Core Wars’ against each other.
Comment unredacted, I’m pretty sure I’m right about the reference, but I’ll be damned if I can find a cite to it now.