I became a tech journalist before Windows existed. 40 years later, I'm hanging up my Press Pass
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After nearly 40 years in the industry, most of it at PCMag and all of it at Ziff Davis, I’m stepping away from the keyboard.
Allow me to mark the occasion with a look back at my journey, along with some sage advice on how to approach today’s technology trends and challenges from a true tech vet.
When I started at PC Magazine in 1987 (it was an actual magazine back then), Windows didn’t exist. Only the text-based DOS for PCs was available, though Apple’s Macintosh graphical interface computers had been around for three years.
The web was far in the future, too, though we had good-old bulletin boards, or BBSes. AI was only in the research phase, with neural networks, the initial kernel of today’s generative AI services, just starting to gather steam.
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