Boardwatch

Boardwatch Magazine's August 2000 issue

Boardwatch Magazine, informally known as Boardwatch, was initially published and edited by Jack Rickard.[1] Founded in 1987, it began as a publication for the online Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 1990s and ultimately evolved into a trade magazine for the Internet service provider (ISP) industry in the late 1990s. The magazine was based in Lakewood, Colorado, and was published monthly.[2]

The magazine included advertisements for BBSes, BBS software and hardware, and editorials about the BBS scene.

The founder and original editor of Boardwatch was Jack Rickard, who wrote editorials about many of the ISP industry's major players. Boardwatch spawned an ISP industry tradeshow, ISPcon, and published a yearly Directory of Internet Service Providers. In 1998, Rickard sold a majority interest in Boardwatch and its related products to an East Coast multimedia company, which was then acquired by Penton Media in 1999 and moved to another ventures, notably EVTV, an online/video magazine of electric car conversions.[3]

In 2000, the Boardwatch Magazine staff published a bi-monthly magazine called CLEC Magazine for competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), small telecom startups that used competitive FCC rulings to resell Baby Bell communication infrastructure. The magazine's March–April 2000 issue included a state-by-state CLEC listing similar to the ISP directory Boardwatch published. Penton produced a CLECexpo trade show in conjunction with the magazine. Penton also produced one ASPcon trade show for application service providers (ASPs), the forerunners to today's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers like Salesforce.com and cloud computing and storage companies.

Penton Media launched ISPworld, an Internet portal website for ISPs, in 2001. The magazine ceased publication in 2002 and its assets were later purchased by online telecom publication Light Reading.[4] ISPcon continued until the last event in November 2008.[5]

작가 및 스태프

  • 잭 리카드 (출판사, 1987년—1999년)
  • 데이비드 하칼라 (잘못된 편집자, 1991년—1995년)
  • 스티브 클라크 (1997년 편집장)
  • 빌 매카시(Managing Editor, Chief, 1997-2001)
  • Todd Erickson(1997년 - 2002년)
  • 데이비드 코프(편집국장, 2001년—2002년)
  • 스티브 스트로(프리랜스 작가 겸 칼럼니스트)
  • 존 C. 드보락(프리랜스 작가 및 칼럼니스트)
  • 제프리 칼 (프리랜스 작가 겸 칼럼니스트)
  • 크리스토퍼 나이트(프리랜스 작가 겸 칼럼니스트)(저자)
  • 밥 랭킨(프리랜스 작성자 및 칼럼니스트)(저자)
  • 게리 펑크(기술 감독, 1991년—1999년)
  • 제이슨 레밀라드(프리랜스 작가)
  • 브렛 글라스(사이버보안 칼럼니스트)

참조

  1. ^ Peter Zelchenko (October 30, 1998). "Jack Rickard, editor of Boardwatch magazine, saw it coming..." The Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
  2. ^ "Guide to the World of Online Services". Boardwatch Magazine (4). April 1993. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
  3. ^ "EVTV.ME Electric car conversion videos". EVTV. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  4. ^ "Light Reading Acquires Boardwatch Magazine" (Press release). Light Reading. December 19, 2002. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
  5. ^ "Web Hosting Talk - the largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet".