Do you read 'old news'/article archives?
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope than most news archives.
I'm gonna do this on a Q&A format. Note that "old news" doesn't need to be news articles, it can be blogs for example.
If you read old news/articles, where do you get them from/find them?
What kind of "old news" do you read?
What historical period do you tend to read about?
If you're reading an article about a historical event you remember, how does your memory tend to compare to those articles?
How often do you do it?
What do you think about subreddits like r/twentyyearsago, since they're basically trawling through those news archives?
No BUT I used to in an odd way. I worked doing some tear down work. Basically the warehouse I was at leased us out to do some helping at times as well as doing things for the shop connected to it. Since for showroom stuff tilesetters use old magazines as backing (since there's no moisture there anyway) and I spent my lunch hours reading old magazines from the 80's. i know its not the same but its a weird insight in to not just what people talked about but what magazines they had at hand on the work sites.
Also when someone had used a porn calendar using every month except "April" was sort of ... well oddly cute in a way?
OH OH! And there is one, a friend bought a summer hat which had paper clippings in it dating it to just before WW1 and the hat had never been worn. The sweat rim unstained, the paper never changed, no damage.
A summer hat, those straw things was a "young mans hat" something you bought as a finer thing to yourself to look stylish in. But this young man, this specific young man never got to wear his. Need to find the clippings and photos from that.
Mentioning this because we where a group digging through the clippings, dating them, talking about the subjects - until we all realized what year they where published and someone asked "why did no one change the paper under the sweat rim in all these years?".