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The word Magazine was added to the name with the third issue in June 1982, [6] but not added to the logo until January 1986.) [2] PC Magazine was created by David Bunnell, Jim Edlin, and Cheryl Woodard [7] (who also helped Bunnell found the subsequent PC World and Macworld magazines). David Bunnell, Edward Currie and Tony Gold were the ...
David Hugh Bunnell (July 25, 1947 – October 18, 2016) was a pioneer of the personal computing industry who founded some of the most successful computer magazines including PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld. In 1975, he was working at MITS in Albuquerque, N.M., when the company made the first personal computer, the Altair 8800.
John C. Dvorak (/ ˈ d v ɔːr æ k /; born 1952) is an American writer and broadcaster in the areas of technology and personal computing. [1] He has been a columnist for multiple magazines since the 1980s and has written or co-authored over a dozen how-to books on software and technology.
The first magazine devoted to this class of computers was Creative Computing. Byte was an influential technical journal that published until the 1990s. In 1983, an average of one new computer magazine appeared each week. [18] By late that year more than 200 existed.
Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the video game industry over the past 20 years by GamePro in 2009 [6] and one of gaming's Top 50 journalists by Edge in 2006. The site has made CNET 's "Blog 100" list [ 7 ] and was ranked 50th on PC Magazine ' s "Top 100 Classic Web Sites" list. [ 8 ]
In 2014, Williams co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures with James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth. The firm is focused on companies they believe can make a positive change in the world. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Since its inception the fund has raised about $585 million—$123 million in its first round, $191 million in its second and $271 ...
Valued at over $120 billion in 1997, when Apple was floundering at $2.3 billion, the company’s devotion to its core PC business threw it for a loop after the dotcom crash.
Moving to New York in 1950, he edited Dell Publishing's cartoon magazines (1000 Jokes, Ballyhoo, For Laughing Out Loud) and Dell's paperback cartoon collections, such as Forever Funny (1956). His comic strip about an absent-minded professor , Professor Phumble , was carried by King Features from 1960 to 1978.