| 词条 | Boardwatch |
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The magazine included advertisements for BBSes, BBS software and hardware, and editorials about the BBS scene. Either alone or in conjunction with Computer Shopper magazine, in the late 1980s and early 1990s before the Internet became a commercially available entity, Boardwatch would publish an annual online poll of the most popular BBSes in the United States. 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] Writers and staff
References1. ^{{cite news|author=Peter Zelchenko|title=Jack Rickard, editor of Boardwatch magazine, saw it coming...|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-10-30/news/9901080059_1_internet-computer-people-bulletin|accessdate=August 3, 2015|work=The Chicago Tribune|date=October 30, 1998}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Guide to the World of Online Services|url=http://textfiles.com/news/boardwat.txt|accessdate=December 6, 2015|work=Boardwatch Magazine|issue=4|date=April 1993}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.evtv.me/|title=EVTV.ME Electric car conversion videos|work=EVTV|accessdate=August 5, 2015}} 4. ^{{cite press release|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/light-reading-acquires-boardwatch-magazine-77214892.html|title=Light Reading Acquires Boardwatch Magazine|publisher=Light Reading|date=December 19, 2002|accessdate=April 5, 2017}} 5. ^http://www.thewhir.com/blog/ispcon-is-dead
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