Ah, the 1990s. When a weekly trip to the shops was required to find out what your favourite pop stars were up to.
You knew that the Smash Hit Poll Winners' Party was the only awards bash worth caring about.
You needed song lyrics? Not a problem.
If you were cool you may have read this.
Maybe you liked this.
Or this.
And you maybe even got (but never used) a few sex tips from here.
It's always funny to reflect on the names that magazines could have had. Steve Bush, the art director, wanted to call it 'Sasha'. We had to call it Seventeen because that was the right title for a magazine for 14-year-olds. The publishers of the American magazine of the same name made legal noises and so we had to come up with an alternative. Peter Strong, the publisher, suggested adding the word 'just'. It wasn't until years later I realised he must have got that idea from the Beatles song "I Saw Her Standing There".
Young sports fans had their own titles too.
Although for quite a while they only wrote about Giggsy.
There were tons of good computer game titles - some focusing on just one console or platform, while others did the whole lot.
Teen magazines were big business: in 1998, the top 11 titles, including Smash Hits and Just 17, sold more than 2.4 million copies a month.
By 2006, six titles were left selling more than 550,000 copies a month.
And now there are only a few left as laptops, smartphones and tablets become standard for teenagers. More (2013), Sugar (2011), Cosmo Girl (2008), and many others have shut.
So what happened? In short, this was teenagers back then...
... And this is teenagers now.
Both Bliss and Top of the Pops magazine are still going, but while they used to sell more than 300,000 copies a month, they now shift about a third of that.
The whole teen market went through a bumpy 1990s when lads' mags became popular and female-focused titles started targeting older girls and women.
Then the onset of the "celeb" magazine, led by Heat and others, also went after this crowded market.
There is still a market for printed magazines, but with the pace of smartphone and tablet adoption it looks limited - especially when targeting people born after the year 2000, who have grown up with ubiquitous internet access.
The Daily Mail's runaway digital success story MailOnline has shown how quickly a print brand can build a huge online audience - nine million browsers a day - but no niche magazine brand has yet to make that leap, nor make a serious living (one comparable to the heyday of print) from digital replica editions.
Just last week, Panini announced it was closing Mizz.
Mizz was selling around 60,000 copies in 2009, but its circulation fell to about half that. The publisher described it as a "fun and trendy 'life guide' for 10-14 year old girls".
Teens are getting those fun and trendy tips from elsewhere these days.
The kids of today are mobile-first in every sense.
According to Ofcom, 77% of people aged 16 to 24 own a smartphone, which is 50 percent higher than the UK as a whole.
Harry Styles has 17 million Twitter followers. Why wait seven days for a magazine to come out, when you can follow pop idols in real time?
You can even tell the stars of today that your cat's died, if you like.
Facebook only launched in 2004 and has 1 billion users - 24 million people in the UK log on every day. Its rise and magazines' decline are not coincidental.
But if you really miss the glory days, some More fans carried on the the Sex Position of the Fortnight on Facebook, as a kind of public service.
Sometimes they use turtles.
But it will never quite be the same as the real thing.
