YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British computer mags

Re:YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British c... by 0898 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:43PM (#27634000)

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.

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Re:YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British c... by UncleSlacky on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#27635457)

It launched Future Publishing (their first magazine was "Amstrad Action"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_plc

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Re:YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British c... by Doctor_Fegg on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:28PM (#27635853)

That 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.

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Re:YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British c... by 0898 on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:35PM (#27636560)

Future 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.

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Re:YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British c... by nickt on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:55PM (#27636152)

I bet you have some stories. ACE was a blast too.

https://archive.org/details/acemagazinefuture

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Re:YoreComputer: Pages selected at random from old British c... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:51PM (#27634084)

The Zoo-TV genre never took off outside Europe, as far as I know,

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