Editing MacCentral (section)

{{Short description|Apple Macintosh news and information website}}
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'''MacCentral''' was a web site that provided news and information covering the [[Apple Macintosh]], originally as an independent entity and later as the news service for [[Mac Publishing]] Web sites, including Macworld.com and Playlist, before being subsumed by Macworld's own brand.

[[File:Jim Dalrymple at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Day 3 Apples Big News.jpg|thumb|Co-founder Jim Dalrymple]]
MacCentral was founded by [[Canadians|Canadian]] businessman [[Stan Flack]] and [[Jim Dalrymple]] as Associate Editor in 1994.<ref name="mwednote">[http://www.macworld.com/article/132981/2008/04/stan_flack.html Dalrymple, Jim. "Stan Flack, MacCentral and MacMinute founder, passes away"] 2008-4-14. Retrieved on April 16, 2008</ref> In 1998, MacCentral Online acquired [[MacGaming]].  MacCentral Online was purchased by [[Mac Publishing]] in 1999.<ref name="mwednote" /> In March 2001, Macworld folded the trade-focused [[MacWEEK]] into MacCentral<ref name="bitsbrief">[http://db.tidbits.com/article/6325 Engst, Adam C. "MacWEEK to Roll into MacCentral", "TidBITS"], 2001-5-9. Retrieved April 19, 2008.</ref> MacCentral was folded into the ''[[Macworld]]'' brand over a period of several years.

In June 2008 it was announced on the [[MacMinute]] news site that [[MacTech]]'s Community News Scan and Macsimum News will act as caretakers to the archives of [[MacMinute]] News and Forums which is where most of Stan's faithful went upon the demise of MacCentral forums. They also announced they would continue to host the MacMinute Forum. Stan's Lounge is crowded with MacCentral and [[MacMinute]] faithful in honor of Stan Flack and all that he did for the Macintosh community.

On December 10, 2008 Jim Dalrymple announced that the name MacCentral lives on; with permission from MacWorld, the old MacCentral Forums were opened at www.maccentralforums.com, where eight years of MacCentral forum history could researched.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} the database of the MacCentral forums has ceased to exist, abbreviated format at archive.gov.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}