MIT Technology Review turns 125

“To a community groaning under an ever increasing weight of periodical literature, a new magazine is forced to present itself in an attitude of apology ... The Technology Review must make plain its purposes, its capacity, its determination to be useful, before it can expect to receive recognition from a public too busy to be indulgent. Realizing this, and mindful, too, of the spirit and traditions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Review neither throws itself upon the charity of its friends nor prays them to be blind to its shortcomings. Doubtless it will need indulgence, doubtless its attainment will fall much below its aspiration; but if it does not so far succeed in its attempt as to gain support through feelings other than those of simple friendliness, the existence of The Review cannot be too quickly ended.”

—Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1899