My geek heart skipped a few beats when I stumbled upon a joint venture between Google Books and Popular Science, which allows anyone to view EVERY SINGLE Popular Science Magazine ever published online for free!

If you don’t know what Popular Science magazine is, I feel very sorry for you; just like I feel sorry for anyone that didn’t see Star Wars when it first came out in the movie theaters. Popular Science magazine is the ultimate geek mag, dealing in what’s coming up in science and technology. Everything a modern-day geek likes was in it’s pages from the time it first came out, well over a century ago.

Before the internet, before computers, before planes, video games or automobiles, there was Popular Science! Don’t be sad if you weren’t there from the beginning, it’s never too late to enjoy PopSci in all it’s online glory!

Thanks to Google Books and PopSci (they like to sound trendy to the kids today), you can see all 137 years of Popular Science’s mags for free. No, I’m not kidding, they’ve been printing these geek mags for 137 freaking years! No lie. Honest Injun! They first started publishing in 1872!

You can either go to Google Books and do a search for Popular Science (I did an advanced search for magazines only with the title of Popular Science) or head on over to PopSci’s online archives site. Heading over to this site though will not allow you to go to a specific magazine issue, you have to do a keyword search. Which will bring up any articles pertaining to what you searched for like girls, plutonium, tanks, girls, motorcycle or yeah girls. Once at an article you can browse the whole magazine if you want exactly as it was published including the ads! (A cool trip through time!)

Popular Science is a great magazine and is definitely geek-worthy of reading. In fact, to claim geek status you have to have read at least 10-50 years of PopSci. There’s a test too.

So head on over, some of you’ve got a lot of catching up to do!