End of One Road Elsewhere

[krpalmer]

After eking along my Tumblr side project of posting computer magazine covers for years, today the cover of the last issue of MacLife in my old subscription emerged from the now altogether depleted queue. I had been wondering for a while whether to just let that account sit, use it for occasional “reblogs” of the posts of others, or go back to a certain number of computer magazines I hadn’t quite managed to include in the lineup the first time around. One extra thought that came to me was that, in covering thirty-five years of computer magazines in less than that time, I’d more or less reached the fiftieth anniversary of the first issue of Creative Computing (even if that can leave me wondering how that magazine might have covered even the second half of the 1980s had it survived its corporate overlord a bit longer). Making “fifty years ago” reblogs would mean a lot of time in between them, though.