“And so it came to pass that on November 19th, 2008 publisher Ziff Davis announced that PC Magazine–in the print version that gave it its name–was going to the great newsstand in the sky. When it gets there, it’ll have plenty of company: Most of the most important tech magazines ever published are no more, victims of the periodic industry shakeouts that are almost as old as the industry itself,” Harry McCracken writes for Technologizer.
McCracken writes, “Herewith, a look at a dozen tech publications that don’t exist anymore (in print form, at least–some are still with us online). All of them were significant in one way or another, all had loyal readerships who mourned their loss, and most were terrific magazines, period. It’s in chronological order by the year of founding. And no, I didn’t include PC Mag: It’s got one more issue to go and therefore isn’t a defunct tech magazine just yet.”
McCracken’s Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever:
• Popular Electronics (1954-1985)
• Creative Computing (1974-1985)
• Byte (1975-1998)
• InfoWorld (1978-2007)
• Compute! (1979-1994)
• 80/Microcomputing (1980-1988)
• Computer Gaming World (1981-2008)
• .info (1983-1992)
• MacUser (1985-1997)
• PC/Computing (1988-2002)
• Upside (1989-2002)
• The Industry Standard (1998-2001)
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’d add MacAddict (1996-2007*) to the list — especially the early years, before they lost their edge (not counting the AutoStart 9805 Worm incident).
*MacAddict was rebranded Mac|Life in February 2007.