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About Archive Newsletter Misc Contact Search for: Search About Contact Newsletter Archive Misc Search Photo by Marie Domingo I’m Harry McCracken, founder and editor of Technologizer. My life’s work is helping people get more out of the technology in their lives, a job I’m very lucky to have.
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My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza - Technologizer by Harry McCracken
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More Computer Magazine Lore: A 1983 Nastygram from Wayne Green
Consider this post a piece of bonus material for David Bunnell's book proposal about his career in tech publishing up to the early 1990s, which I posted yesterday.Another computer magazine tycoon, Wayne Green (1922-2013), makes several cameos in David's m
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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn't create the idea of computer magazines. But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business. In the 1970s, when David was working at pioneering PC company MITS, he publishedComputer
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A 1983 look at the computer magazine wars
First, an apology: I'm sorry I haven't acknowledged the 40th anniversary of PC World. I feel slightly less guilty since-as far as I know-even PC World itself has not celebrated the 40th anniversary of PC World. Earlier this year, another magazine I used t
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Elon Musk's X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
The delayed websites include X's online rivals Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack as well as Reuters and the New York Times, all of which Musk previously has singled out for ridicule or attack.
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The End of Computer Magazines in America
The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you-assuming there is a newsstand near you. They're the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines, both of which date to 1996 (and were originally known
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Forty Years of Lunar Lander (2009)
Lunar Lander games abound on every platform. Along with Tetris and Pac-Man, the game--in which your mission is to safely maneuver your lunar module onto the moon's surface--is one of the most widely cloned computer games of all time. But did you know that
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