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		kstrauser on July 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mad Magazine to mostly stop publishing new materia... Same. It's not exaggerating to say that it taught me a healthy distrust of authority and corporate America. RIP, gang. You showed me a great many new ideas.

klenwell on July 4, 2019 [–]

Also gave Donald Knuth his first big break:

> At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...

I shudder to think where computer science would be today were it not for the sage foresight and mature discrimination of Mad magazine.

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