Byte might be long gone, but you can still take a journey through time
While most of us now source our technology news online, millions globally still flick their way through a newspaper or magazine to keep up to date.
Sadly, print media is a declining industry, according to figures from Statista, and with a digital world at your fingertips, it’s easy to see why you’d visit the myriad (but also declining) news sites out there to keep your finger on the pulse of the global tech scene.
Rewind to the mid-1970s, however, and it was a completely different world – and Byte magazine was all the rage. Launched in 1975, the magazine gained a reputation for its extensive coverage of ‘microcomputers’ and rose to prominence in parallel with the early days of personal computing.
The magazine was published monthly, and readers could subscribe through an annual subscription of just $10 initially. Even by today’s standards that’s cheap, coming in at the equivalent of $59.88 – great value, if you ask me.
By 1979, at the time of its acquisition by the McGraw-Hill publishing group, Byte boasted a paid circulation of over 150,000 readers, making it one of the most popular technology magazines on the scene.
