Same. It's not exaggerating to say that it taught me a healthy distrust of authority and corporate America. RIP, gang. You showed me a great many new ideas.
> At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...
I shudder to think where computer science would be today were it not for the sage foresight and mature discrimination of Mad magazine.