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PCWorld Magazine Is No More

Posted by timothy on from the long-rather-for-the-old-and-big-computer-shopper dept.

harrymcc writes "After slightly more than 30 years, PCWorld — one of the most successful computer magazines of all time — is discontinuing print publication. It was the last general-interest magazine for PC users, so it really is the end of an era. Over at TIME, I paused to reflect upon the end of the once-booming category, in part as a former editor at PCWorld, but mostly as a guy who really, really loved to read computer magazines."

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  1. No worries by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Funny

    PCWorld can just rename itself MobileWorld or CloudWorld or SocialWorld and it will be thriving again!

    1. Re:No worries by the+agent+man · · Score: 4, Funny

      or how about "Post-PCWorld" ?

    2. Re:No worries by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd go with LinuxDesktopWorld myself. I hear next year will be the year it finally takes off!

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    3. Re:No worries by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, but even so - everyone will expect it to be free.

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  2. Just Gotta Say It by jasnw · · Score: 5, Funny

    This really BYTEs.

    1. Re:Just Gotta Say It by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

      Like that joke hasn't been made 2600 times before

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  3. B'bye by ubergeek65536 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't say I'm sorry to see it go. It was like reading a car magazine that explains that cars have four tires in every article.

  4. Advertising by twoears · · Score: 5, Funny

    So where are Compuserve and AOL going to get all their customers?

  5. Re:Sad, but no great loss... by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I loved computer shopper. Not the souless glossy pamphlet that it became. The real computer shopper was 300+ pages of nothing but ads all printed on cheap pulp paper, heavy enough to make phone books jealous and mailmen cry.

    It was a cheap source of paper and weight when in need, like when you are sitting on the toilet and notice your short of a vital component. Got a computer shopper, your covered. Need something to hold your ass down when a hurricane winds a blowing, your covered. Got a body to sink and got no cement, your covered.

    Damn I miss that book, but I'm sure glad my ex wife missed when she threw one at me.

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