Almost all of the published Commonwealth Times papers from 1969 to present day can be found on the VCU libraries website within the Digital Collections.

During its first decade, it had its headquarters in a historic house on West Franklin Street and ran ads for products including Budweiser beer.

Prior to that, staff members had used outdated Macintosh computers, most of which had been acquired in the early 1990s, and still pasted up pages and sized pictures manually.

Below that was a narrative, normally written by the sports editor, that commented on the staff members' progress in The Picks and used double entendres and plain-old raunch to describe them and their personalities.

In fall 2024, the CT prints a full-color broadsheet newspaper every other week, complemented by daily updates to the Commonwealthtimes.org website.