YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
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Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#2The British computer press of the 80s and 90s - magazines from the Future stable like Your Sinclair - pioneered a lot of the whimsical, zoo-TV style writing that’s popular now.
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#3Looking forward to the day when Rob Manuel has enough twitter bots to throw elections. Some (!) of his other ones:
https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1110141713979502592?lan...
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#4Looking forward to the day when Rob Manuel has enough twitter bots to throw elections. Some (!) of his other ones: https://twitter.com/robmanuel/status/1110141713979502592?lan...
Thats where I got this. I sense a fellow b3ta subscriber.
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#5Ah yes, but which Computer Shopper magazine?
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#6The British computer press of the 80s and 90s - magazines from the Future stable like Your Sinclair - pioneered a lot of the whimsical, zoo-TV style writing that’s popular now.
The Zoo-TV genre never took off outside Europe, as far as I know,
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#7Really wish it's possible to afford publishing hardcore computer magazines in paper nowadays. Looks like most of them are online now because of cost.
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#8Really wish it's possible to afford publishing hardcore computer magazines in paper nowadays. Looks like most of them are online now because of cost.
Well, cost relative to potential revenue. How many people are going to spend maybe $5/month for a monthly magazine. (And that's probably low because the print advertising market is almost certainly not there any longer at anything like the level it was.)
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#9Really wish it's possible to afford publishing hardcore computer magazines in paper nowadays. Looks like most of them are online now because of cost.
Well, cost relative to potential revenue. How many people are going to spend maybe $5/month for a monthly magazine. (And that's probably low because the print advertising market is almost certainly not there any longer at anything like the level it was.)
I definitely will if one magazine costs less than 10 bucks and I can afford bi weekly subscription. However I do understand it's just my own opinion and also it's difficult for the magazine to shine in the sea of free material on the Internet.
Re: YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags
#10The British computer press of the 80s and 90s - magazines from the Future stable like Your Sinclair - pioneered a lot of the whimsical, zoo-TV style writing that’s popular now.
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