In December 1999 Folio Magazine published a list of the 15 critical events in magazine publishing of the twentieth century. Stephen Johnson's 1997 article in Life Magazine was seen as the final critical event of the century. Here are the last entries in the list:
1983 Apple introduces the Macintosh and the age of desktop publishing arrives.
1995 Salon Magazine, now Salon.com, the first professionally staffed Internet-based magazine, launches in San Francisco. Salon takes advantage of the Internet to engage in "continuous publishing."
1997 The December edition of Life runs a photo essay by landscape photographer Stephen Johnson-the first story to appear in a national magazine produced using the computer-to-plate process, completely bypassing traditional film
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