Optron #25 19 апреля 1999

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Category X - Electronic media: yesterday, today and tomorrow.

       Eyeing broader view ...

{} Paul Vysotsky / Gendalf, 1999


           Electronic media:

          Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow


  Not so far gone times when
The first step was to buy another
magazine, read it a couple days and then stored for a long 
time. (A magazine something - not very fresh - especially if 
you live away from Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the 
information a in it - mostly pustovataya.) Bearing

at the hands of expensive disk with semi-literate kilobytes of 
text, could be almost sure that you "keep your hand on

pulse "and you know all about the Spectrum. There were
good journals, but also the "sin", and now, alas, is not so 
interesting to read. 

  But those days are finished paradise. Come and have flatly 
refused to go free newspapers, gradually displacing 
redkovypuskaemye magazines that now is not something that fly - 
and sometimes write something they do not want spare disk. 
Already a lot of divorced among them every third-rate stuff ... 

  I am far from being able to bury the logs
on the Speccy. Just exactly those in their "old form" magazines 
are now very few people need. But when the subject is no longer 
limited to one computer, when they will go out often, will be 
held indeed the necessary information, then all

and change.

  Most likely, a good magazine
a year or two will be similar to a thematic anthology. And now 
the first and last word - for the newspapers.