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After 47 Years, Computerworld Ceases Print Publication

Posted by timothy on from the old-computer-magazines-never-die dept.

harrymcc (1641347) writes "In June 1967, a weekly newspaper called Computerworld launched. Almost exactly 47 years later, it's calling it quits in print form to focus on its website and other digital editions. The move isn't the least bit surprising, but it's also the end of an era--and I can' t think of any computing publication which had a longer run. Over at Technologizer, I shared some thoughts on what Computerworld meant to the world, to its publisher, IDG, and to me."

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  1. CACM is older by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative

    Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery was first published in 1957.

    1. Re:CACM is older by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Informative

      yes, that the magazine (still around) that published the famous (or infamous) letter by Edsger Dijkstra "Go to Statement Considered Harmful", which I'll bet half of slashdotters have heard referenced

  2. Did anyone care anymore? by HBI · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe my first computer "magazine" was a photocopied zine for Apple computers from back in the 70s. I think I bought my last computer magazine in about 2000. The web killed the market for such things long ago.

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