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Does Computer Journalism Have a History?

Posted by Cliff on from the following-the-paper-and-bit-trail dept.

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."

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  1. US Magazines... by Howie · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doctor Dobb's Journal (Doctor Dobbs' Journal of Computer Callisthenics and
    Orthodontics     at the time) and Byte were both around at least from the mid-70's. DDJ's website says 1976 for them. This site says Sepember 1975 for Byte.

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  2. That's a stupid question by JoshuaDFranklin · · Score: 3, Informative
    Everything has a history, of course. :) I've done a good amount of online history-seeking, and I've found that the usual places of searching (like Google are the best--at least to find other subject-specialized sites.

    For some of these, there's always Yahoo!, which seems to have a good number of links in this directory.

    Also the Online History of Computers seems alright.

    If you're willing to spend a few bucks, you might invest in some of the titles in the IEEE Bibliography. LoL.