Can walk into shop and purchase magazine and the magazine owner wouldn't know what you read, when you read it....
Equally the outlay would be just for the magazine compared to internet connection, computer capable of browsing the internet and then still have to transfer it to the TRS-80/100.
Then there was the important aspect many miss-out upon today, when you typed something in from a magazine, you got to know the code over just running a program. You made mistakes, and often the magazines would have erata sections to cover typo's from the last edition and with those mistakes - you learned even more than just hitting run.
Yeah I'm not supporting Facebook just stating that the physical act of typing it all in vs copying from a Facebook post is not as easy. I have no Facebook account.
I typed many programs in from Compute and other magazines back in the day. I miss Byte magazine most of all. I may even try to this this on my Model 100 at some point. Just for kicks.
And for convenience, a terminal program. It makes debugging the connection to the Model 100 a lot easier. I use Serial on macOS. I don't remember what it costs, but it couldn't have been much.
The Model 100 supports RS232 connections up to (IIRC) 115k baud, but mine gets flaky at that speed, so I keep it at 9600. That's more than fast enough for the tiny files the 100 uses. It's the next door neighbor to instant.
Can walk into shop and purchase magazine and the magazine owner wouldn't know what you read, when you read it.... Equally the outlay would be just for the magazine compared to internet connection, computer capable of browsing the internet and then still have to transfer it to the TRS-80/100.
Then there was the important aspect many miss-out upon today, when you typed something in from a magazine, you got to know the code over just running a program. You made mistakes, and often the magazines would have erata sections to cover typo's from the last edition and with those mistakes - you learned even more than just hitting run.