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I had a couple of magazine CDs that I got from a trial subscription.
https://archive.org/details/launchcdmagazine
AOL zines were pretty neat.
https://medium.com/s/requiem-for-an-internet/how-aols-tween-zine-scene-pioneered-the-digital-self-9f2e261a6d2a
Researching for essays was annoying because you had to actually leave your house and go to a library to get books. (But libraries are fun for personal reading.)