Macworld Memories

The news that Macworld magazine would no longer be printed (and that most of the people who'd also contributed to its web site would be losing their jobs) was one of those unfortunate announcements which all the same make a certain hard sense in hindsight. I had bought one issue earlier this year for its "thirtieth anniversary of the Macintosh" article and thought the whole thing awful thin; before that, the previous issue I'd bought had had a twenty-fifth anniversary cover story. For that matter too, I know PC Magazine and PC World had already stopped printing issues, so one can hardly suggest "the smaller platforms go first, even if at last." Even so, its continued existence might have served as a personal link back to the days when my family had left the "8-bit era" by buying a Macintosh LC II for our home and we'd started buying the magazine just months before the typeface of its cover logo changed (after which it didn't look as attractive to me). There's also the little complication that even in an age where the instant information of web sites may have obscured the value of a more permanent month-by-month record, I've managed to start going back to some of the earliest issues of Macworld...
( The saga of the early adopters )