It is a general trend in today’s media world that an increasing number of offline publications are discontinued. Among them are also magazines that focused on the internet and other technologies that paved the way to “closing down”. The process began a decade ago, print media has been suffering a long and painful death since then…

The last print issue of the IT magazine Computerworld came out in the US on 30 June after 47 years of being on the newsstands. The magazine defined itself as the first periodical dedicated to “the entire IT community”.

The online version will, of course, stay.

“It’s sad to lose anything that has endured so long but they are merely taking part in the natural evolution of the media industry,” said Scott Finnie, editor-in-chief. He referred to something parallel in the history of technology as an example: locomotives were fuelled with coal and steam in the old times, Computerworld has now shifted from paper, and gone online. The editors will continue to write for the magazine with the only difference being that their articles will be published on the webpage of computerworld.com created in 1996. August will see the launch of the digital magazine optimised for tablets and PCs.