[rescue] quad 486

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 patrick at zill.net
Fri Feb 21 18:46:24 CST 2003


On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:49:36PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 06:12 PM, Brian wrote:
> > Computer Shopper used to be a friggin phone book size conglomeration of
> > ads and all sorts of nifty hardware, the world was different pre bubble
> > burst.
> 
>    Computer Shopper's transformation had nothing at all to do with the 
> bursting of the bubble.  They changed from a computer-related rag to a 


The Internet killed them, IMHO.  Why buy Computer Shoper when you can
just go online?

Even in their phone book days they just wrote articles to provide a
brief intermission between the ads.

--Patrick


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