Does Computer Journalism Have a History? 13
apanishev asks: "Hi to all /.'ters! I'm a beginner computer journalist in a Russian on- and offline magazine "PL-komp'yutery". One of the recent topics of my interest is: whether the computer journalism itself has a history? Sure it does, but my first investigations revealed nothing. I know there were some Amiga paper magazines and some BBS electronic bulletines before the Internet age, but what was the very first paper (and/or online) magazine about personal computers? About web design and professional computing? About PC games? I would be very grateful for any thoughts about the subject."
US Magazines... (Score:4, Informative)
Orthodontics at the time) and Byte were both around at least from the mid-70's. DDJ's website [ddj.com] says 1976 for them. This site [islandnet.com] says Sepember 1975 for Byte.
That's a stupid question (Score:3, Informative)
For some of these, there's always Yahoo!, which seems to have a good number of links in this directory [yahoo.com].
Also the Online History of Computers [hitmill.com] seems alright.
If you're willing to spend a few bucks, you might invest in some of the titles in the IEEE Bibliography [ieee.org]. LoL.