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TIME.com[^]:
The news isn’t shocking. In fact, it’s sort of a shock it didn’t happen several years ago. After slightly more than thirty years in print, PCWorld magazine is ceasing publication, effective with the current issue, to focus on its website and digital editions. If I have to explain why, you haven’t been paying attention to the media business for the past decade or so. The web has been awfully hard on magazines, and no category has suffered more than computer publications.

I still miss Omni. What was your favorite print tech magazine?

I still remember the glorious anarchic mashup that was Your Spectrum, a monthly wail of tech induced joy from the heart of Soho. Then Phil South went and got a real job, the console kiddies took over and nothing was quite the same anymore. Games started to cost more than the cover price of a magazine and PCWorld wasn't half an inch thick anymore. I would miss the eighties. I really would if I could Big Grin | :-D

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

For me, BYTE was the first really good magazine I had the pleasure of reading. I remember reading about Smalltalk (the famous balloon cover - Byte Smalltalk Issue[^]), Linn's Rekursiv (Rekursiv[^]), BeOS, TAOS (TAOS[^]), Transputers (Transputer[^]) and many other products that have evaporated over the years.

Of course they did have regular articles on abominations such as 4GLs too, which are probably better forgotten.

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

PC Magazine in the 90s. In the pre-The Register era Dvorak's column was the only readily available source for the rumors and nasty gossip that weren't considered fit for normal articles.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt