I was reading the Social Media blog and I found the following:
“It's worth noting this passing of an era, given that we'll see many more headlines like this in the years ahead. From Harry McCracken at Technologizer last week: Ziff-Davis: The Legendary Magazine Publisher Publishes Magazines No More. Excerpt:
This news has more to do with dead trees than electrons, but I can’t resist: Ziff Davis has announced that it’s selling its 1Up network of gaming sites to Hearst and shutting down Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. Coming around six weeks after the company discontinued the print version of PC Magazine, the news leaves ZD with no paper-based publications at all.
Which is a big deal, since the 82-year-old publisher had as long, influential, and impressive a history of consumer publishing as any company on the planet. Among its titles over the years, other than EGM and PC Mag: Amazing Stories, Car and Driver, Computer Shopper, Creative Computing, MacUser, MacWeek, PC/Computing, PC Week, Popular Electronics, Popular Photography, Stereo Review, Yahoo Internet Life., and many others I’m not thinking of right now. Nobody published more successful mags read by more enthusiasts with a wider range of passions, or made more money doing so.”
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That makes me feel sad and old. I was a big time reader of “Computer Shopper”, “Popular Electronics” and “Popular Photography” and I am sure many of their other publications.
I became a shortwave listener because of PE magazine back in 1955. Later I became a ham radio operator (NØUWY) and it was because of my shortwave listening. My name appears in PE magazine a few times.
I got interested in computers and decided I had to have a computer because of PE magazine and the January 1975 issue of PE magazine above. I read Carl and Jerry in PE each month. I build projects from PE. I remember having and holding in my hand a Raytheon CK722 transistor and hooking it up and seeing what I could do with it. I had to get a new one when I plugged the old one direct into the 110v socket. Smile
Those were the good old days.
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