''Computer Life''
was a magazine which focused on computers. ''
The New York Times
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'' called it "an endless array of permutations that marry the term PC to some older, less-capitalized form of existence"
[ because of its coverage of "the culture of computers."][ Amidst "hundreds of computing magazines" its focus was ]Generation X
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History
Ziff Davis
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began publishing the San Francisco
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monthly in 1994.[ Advertising revenues had increased
by 1996, but not in proportion to "the increase in overall spending."][ Part of this was attributed to major portions of some company's ad budgets focused on television.][
When it first came out, ''Family Life'' was "the largest start-up ever undertaken" by ''Ziff Davis''. This was the era when the magazine's big brother was "No. 1 in total advertising, ahead of Forbes and Business Week." By 1998 it had been renamed;][''Equip'' ] it was subsequently closed by ''Ziff Davis''.
References
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
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