If you received your print edition of the January-February issue and you can’t stop fighting a weird feeling that something is a little different — like there’s a glitch in the matrix — let me put your mind at ease: Something is different. For 25 years, we’ve been publishing issues monthly — this is our first bimonthly issue since 1995.

Moving to six print issues a year doesn’t mean we’re cutting the amount of content we will generate. In fact, our plan is to produce more than we did with monthly printing. The difference is we’ll be debuting more of that content online. The result will be a livelier website with more frequent updates with timely articles and bigger print issues filled with original content and the best of the stories that were first published online.

This is all part of continuing efforts to modernize New Mobility for the digital age. While many other small-market magazines have come and gone, we’ve stayed alive and rolling, in part because we’ve adapted to the changing times.

Our first print issue came out in 1989 when the mere idea of an online version would have been incomprehensible to all but a tech-savvy few. For context, it was that same year an English computer scientist is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.

We were relatively early adopters of the newfangled internet when we launched newmobility.com in the ’90s. Looking back on the first archived copy of our site, from November 1996, provides perspective on how much we have changed while also staying true to the core values that continue to make New Mobility a trusted content provider for active wheelchair users.

Maybe the site looked more appealing using Netscape 2.0 in the then-recommended 800×600 resolution, but good luck reading in that resolution on your high-definition monitor or phone. You’ll need even better luck to find a functioning copy of Netscape. Eyesore is the first descriptor that comes to mind today.

The only images on an all-black background are the pixelated bullet points before a bunch of neon green links, a laughable “New” sticker highlighting a few of those links and our logo:

But as dated as the site may be visually, the main text describing New Mobility could have been pulled from our current site.

While unsentimental and uncompromising, New Mobility’s voice is practical, knowing and friendly. New Mobility covers people and issues that matter to people with disabilities: medical news and cure research; jobs; benefits; civil rights; sports, recreation and travel; fertility, pregnancy and childcare. And there’s a lot more, too.

“Disability isn’t all misery or triumph, pity or admiration,” says New Mobility editor Barry Corbet, an award-winning author and filmmaker and paraplegic for 28 years. “Disability is news, art, politics, humor, healing, recreation, travel, show-biz and rehab-biz, and that’s what we do.”

Corbet founded this column, and his eloquence set a bar higher than the tallest seat elevator or most insane transfer could hope to reach. As I was looking through the archives, I stumbled on the May 1996 Bully Pulpit, titled “My Inner Brat.”

Like the old version of our site, the layout isn’t much to look at — a bunch of text with a small photo of Corbet in his manual chair. But like all his columns, the writing is exceptional. After a long examination of how he views himself as an aging wheelchair user, he ends with some advice that I hope we will use to guide New Mobility in its next phase: Be who you are. Do it well.