Adam and Tonya Engst reached an impressive milestone this week: 1,000 issues of their online publication, TidBITS. To help celebrate, the premier Mac power couple provided an unprecedented look at the history of TidBITS, as well as a look behind the scenes at the longest running web tech publication. Adam and Tonya reveal the origins of TidBITS, how it got started in a pre-internet world, and why it was first published as a HyperCard stack. The style of writing in TidBITS has always been distinctive. Find out why and how it started, learn about how it survived the challenges of online publishing in the early days through the kindness of friends and fans, and how their formula of benefiting readers and sponsors alike came from. There is also another anniversary Adam and Tonya are celebrating, and they talk about the success of the Take Control Books and how it has helped fuel the enhancement of TidBITS. All this and more in Part One of a two-part discussion.
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(Listen to Part 2 of Adam and Tonya’s interview)
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