Magazine History

Hi there ! So as you all know, we are creating our own personal magazine ! When dealing with a magazine, there's many components and aspects that we don't know where they truly originated from or, who exactly created the format and the history behind the magazines, so let's talk about it !

To begin with, the first official magazine to ever be published was in Germany during the 17th century, when looking at how much attraction it received and seeing how much informal the magazine became, it almost became a trend and spread across Europe. 

When it came to officially publishing back then, many people did not have a true source to fact check the information put in the magazines nor did they even have information to input as often so this led to irregularity. The creators of the magazine were not intentionally publishing as often as needed. 

This irregularity issue was fixed when, creators realized that often times the magazines wouldn't last or there wasn't much of an audience so they began to have different individuals focus on different aspects of topics they were interested in. So women began to record numbers for different topic/local issues and targeted other mothers and women within their nearby areas and communities, and this was their target audience. 

 This mainly went on for many years until the America(s) began to follow suit. The first American magazine(s) made their firsts publish in 1741 by surprisingly Benjamin Franklin in a general magazine and Andrew Bradford. 

Usually the cost was not very appealing for magazines so all magazines were very short lived until numbers were shown up mainly  by the American women, and this is where it all began where the rest is history...

I hope you enjoyed my summary history lesson about magazines, next blog we're going to dissect a little bit about house styles within my groups topic.. come back to find out what it is ! 

Stay Tuned !

Sources: https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/5-2-history-of-magazine-publishing/