On March 7, 2007, I tweeted—though it wasn't yet called that—for the first time. I remember feeling like I was late to the platform: If I understand how member ID codes work, I was the 817,268th ...

I’m all over the place (except at Twitter), and here are some of the places you’ll find me: Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com Mastodon: I’m @harrymccracken@mastodon.social Threads: @technologizer SezUs: ...

Okay, maybe "lost" is overstating things. Still, I tend to forget about most of the stuff I write the moment I'm done with it. So I certainly don't have vivid recollections of writing my weekly ...

DALL-E 3 gets most of the credit (or blame?) for this. It hardly seems possible that it's been nearly sixteen years since I pressed publish on my first Technologizer post. Back then, the iPhone had ...

Photo by Marie Domingo I'm Harry McCracken, founder and editor of Technologizer. My life's work is helping people get more out of the technology in their lives, a job I'm very lucky to have. I started ...

Consider this post a piece of bonus material for David Bunnell's book proposal about his career in tech publishing up to the early 1990s, which I posted yesterday. Another computer magazine tycoon, ...

Posts about David Bunnell written by Harry McCracken. Consider this post a piece of bonus material for David Bunnell’s book proposal about his career in tech publishing up to the early 1990s, which I ...

Posts about PC World written by Harry McCracken. Consider this post a piece of bonus material for David Bunnell’s book proposal about his career in tech publishing up to the early 1990s, which I ...

Facebook's "memories" feature recently reminded me of the tenth anniversary of a small personal milestone I hadn't thought much about in recent years. The September 30, 2013 issue of TIME ...