And BYTE in particular. BYTE in the 1970s-early 1980s was a hobbyist magazine that helped introduce mindblowing things like object-oriented and functional programming to people without formal computer science training (they had whole issues dedicated to Smalltalk and Lisp which were the first introductions to these languages that most people had). By the late 1980s, it had become just another corporate magazine read by your local IT department. For example, here’s a cover from 1989 to show how boring it got (and no, TRON is not referring to the Jeff Bridges film but an Japanese OS, granted the most interesting thing in this issue).
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