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."
Dr Dobbs Journal (Score:1)
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.
Re:US Magazines... (Score:2)
Granddaddy of Computer Magazines.... (Score:1)
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.
The first magazine about... (Score:1)
Ever hardworking, Arnie, Joyce and Bill then started doing, of all things, big time wrestling magazines for a while, and ended up replacing the editorial team at Frozen Foods Weekly. Not exactly a dream gig, but all the frozen food they could eat, I guess.
After the games industry recovered at the end of the decade, Barry Friedman negotiated a deal for them with Decker-Sendai publications and EG came back to life for a few years. While never as big as CGW, the magazine did respectably well and was generally good in coverage.
Near the end of the 90's, for various reasons including a number of projects being pursued by the partners, the magazine went away, being briefly renamed Fusion and then turning to dust.
And while I don't know it for a fact, I seem to think that Byte would be the first computer magazine in print. At least, it is the first one I can ever remember reading, and by far the best of its generation.
out of electronics came (Score:1)
RCA COSMAC VIP [inebraska.com], be still my heart
Classic Computers (Score:1)
Real Computers (Score:2)
Creative Computing (Score:1)
[aside: you kids haven't lived if you haven't typed the BASIC source for Hunt the Wumpus on a model 33 Teletype and saved it to paper tape!]
Creative also covered hobbyist systems such as the MITS Altair, and when the various home systems started to hit the market, Creative was there to cover Apple, Atari, IBM PC, etc.
Of course, the home systems soon had dedicated magazines -- for the Ataris, there were A.N.A.L.O.G ("Atari Newsletter And Lots Of Games") and Antic. (I've got a closet full of these if anybody wants to purchase some history).
Incidentally, the first issue of Byte was not published until 1975 [fireinthevalley.com]. I can't seem to find a date for the founding of Dr. Dobbs Journal.
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