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The 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 tha
by 0898 5y ago
The 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.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoThe Zoo-TV genre never took off outside Europe, as far as I know,
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- UncleSlacky 5y agoIt launched Future Publishing (their first magazine was "Amstrad Action"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_plc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_plc
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoThat was the start of my career! My first (freelance) job was as the technical editor for Amstrad Action in its closing years. A great magazine, even in its dying days.
- nickt 5y agoI bet you have some stories. ACE was a blast too. https://archive.org/details/acemagazinefuture https://archive.org/details/acemagazinefuture
- 0898 5y agoFuture launched my career too. I started writing for .net in 1998 magazine when I was 15 and joined as a staff writer two years later. Fun fact: its editor, Richard Longhurst, went onto start Lovehoney.