MacCentral

MacCentral was a web site that provided news and information covering the Apple Macintosh, originally as an independent entity and later as the news service for Mac Publishing Web sites, including Macworld.com and Playlist, before being subsumed by Macworld's own brand.

MacCentral was founded by Canadian businessman Stan Flack and Jim Dalrymple as Associate Editor in 1994.[1] In 1998, MacCentral Online acquired MacGaming. MacCentral Online was purchased by Mac Publishing in 1999.[1] In March 2001, Macworld folded the trade-focused MacWEEK into MacCentral[2] MacCentral was folded into the Macworld brand over a period of several years.

In June 2008 it was announced on the MacMinute news site that MacTech's Community News Scan and Macsimum News will act as caretakers to the archives of MacMinute News and Forums which is where most of Stan's faithful went upon the demise of MacCentral forums. They also announced they would continue to host the MacMinute Forum. Stan's Lounge is crowded with MacCentral and MacMinute faithful in honor of Stan Flack and all that he did for the Macintosh community.

On December 10, 2008 Jim Dalrymple announced that the name MacCentral lives on; with permission from MacWorld, the old MacCentral Forums were opened at www.maccentralforums.com, where eight years of MacCentral forum history could researched. As of this date, the database of the MacCentral forums has ceased to exist, abbreviated format at archive.gov.

MacCentral chronology

MacCentral Forum

Despite the rebranding of MacCentral, a cadre of loyal readers continued to maintain a presence in the MacCentral Forum, a community that remained in operation without being prominently linked to from anywhere on Macworld's primary site. Those forums were shut down in 2008, with many of the forum members relocating to the MacMinute Café forum. And then, with the shutting down of the MacMinute forums in May 2008 the majority of forum members moved[8] to MacCentral Cafe or other places on the internet.

MacCentral Forum chronology

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dalrymple, Jim. "Stan Flack, MacCentral and MacMinute founder, passes away" 2008-4-14. Retrieved on April 16, 2008
  2. ↑ Engst, Adam C. "MacWEEK to Roll into MacCentral", "TidBITS", 2001-5-9. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
  3. ↑ Robertson, Tim, "MyMac", "Stan Flack" 2008-4-15, retrieved April 20, 2008
  4. ↑ Duncan, Geoff. "Mac Publishing Buys MacCentral", "TidBITS", 1999-6-7. Retrieved on April 19, 2008
  5. ↑ "MacCentral Assimilated By Ziff-Davis/IDG Owned Mac Publishing", "The Mac Observer", 1999-06-02. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
  6. ↑ " Chaffin, Bryan. "The Mac Observer." "Mac Publishing Drops MacWeek, Moves MacCentral.com To Macworld.com", 2001-03-02, retrieved April 19, 2008.
  7. ↑ Stan Flack, "MacMinute News", May 9, 2001. Retrieved on December 18, 2007 Archived September 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ "Local Members Move". PBTP Publication. 2008-09-18.
  9. ↑ Archive Wayback Machine 1998-11-09 Retrieved October 6, 2012
  10. ↑ Internet Archive Wayback Machine 1998-1-31, Retrieved April 20, 2008
  11. ↑ Chaffin, Bryan. "The Mac Observer." "MacCentral Mosaic Project and more." 2002-7-10, retrieved April 19, 2008]
  12. ↑ Editors, "BNET", "35 Mac Users From Around the World Make Art to Make a Difference at Macworld Conference & Expo; Stunning Mosaic Created by Shared Pixels, Imagination and Mac Software", 2002-7-1, retrieved April 19, 2008
  13. ↑ Dalrymple, Jim. "MacCentral Mosaic auction coming to Macworld Expo." 2002-7-1, retrieved April 19, 2008
  14. ↑ Mrsich, Pete, "Work With Pete", MacCentral Mosaic 2007-10-29, Retrieved April 19, 2008
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