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{{Short description|Apple Macintosh news and information website}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''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}} ==MacCentral chronology== * September 4, 1995 Stan Flack publishes the first monthly issue of MacCentral using DOCMaker.<ref>[http://www.mymac.com/showarticle.php?id=3245 Robertson, Tim, "MyMac", "Stan Flack"] 2008-4-15, retrieved April 20, 2008</ref> * June 1999 Mac Publishing, LLC, the publisher of Macworld magazine and Macworld Online, purchases MacCentral Online.<ref>[http://db.tidbits.com/article/5425 Duncan, Geoff. "Mac Publishing Buys MacCentral"], "TidBITS", 1999-6-7. Retrieved on April 19, 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.macobserver.com/news/99/june/990602/maccentralbought.html "MacCentral Assimilated By Ziff-Davis/IDG Owned Mac Publishing"], "The Mac Observer", 1999-06-02. Retrieved April 19, 2008.</ref> * February 2001 In a move to assert the dominance of the Macworld brand among its brands including MacCentral.com and MacWEEK.com, Mac Publishing redirects Maccentral.com traffic to a subdomain of Macworld.com.<ref>[http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/03/02.13.shtml " Chaffin, Bryan. "The Mac Observer." "Mac Publishing Drops MacWeek, Moves MacCentral.com To Macworld.com"], 2001-03-02, retrieved April 19, 2008.</ref> * May 9, 2001 Stan Flack leaves MacCentral to publish [[MacMinute]] News on a new web site.<ref>[http://www.macworld.com/article/1132981/stan_flack.html Stan Flack], "MacMinute News", May 9, 2001. Retrieved on December 18, 2007 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928135539/http://www.macworld.com/article/1132981/stan_flack.html |date=September 28, 2014 }}</ref> * April 14, 2008, Stan Flack, MacCentral founder, passes away at his home on [[Prince Edward Island]].<ref name="mwednote" /> ==MacCentral Forum== Despite the rebranding of MacCentral, a cadre of loyal readers continued to maintain a presence in the MacCentral Forum, a community that remained in operation without being prominently linked to from anywhere on Macworld's primary site. Those forums were shut down in 2008, with many of the forum members relocating to the [[MacMinute]] CafΓ© forum. And then, with the shutting down of the MacMinute forums in May 2008 the majority of forum members moved<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poweredbythepeople.com/categories/moving-zipcode.php|title=Local Members Move|publisher=PBTP Publication|date=2008-09-18}}</ref> to MacCentral Cafe or other places on the internet. ==MacCentral Forum chronology== * November 9, 1996 Maccentral in the past <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19961109210124/http://www.maccentral.com/ Archive Wayback Machine] 1998-11-09 Retrieved October 6, 2012</ref> * January 31, 1998 MacCentral Reader Forum opened.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19980201030632/http://maccentral.com/ Internet Archive Wayback Machine] 1998-1-31, Retrieved April 20, 2008</ref> * March 26, 2002 Beginning of what becomes the Forum 2002 Mosaic Project. This community project culminates with posters and signed canvases being sold at Macworld Expo. MacCentral Forum members elect to give the proceeds to [[United Cerebral Palsy]].<ref>[http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/07/10.6.shtml Chaffin, Bryan. "The Mac Observer." "MacCentral Mosaic Project and more."] 2002-7-10, retrieved April 19, 2008]</ref><ref>[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/35+Mac+Users+From+Around+the+World+Make+Art+to+Make+a+Difference+at...-a088090464 Editors, "BNET", "35 Mac Users From Around the World Make Art to Make a Difference at Macworld Conference & Expo; Stunning Mosaic Created by Shared Pixels, Imagination and Mac Software"], 2002-7-1, retrieved April 19, 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.macworld.com/article/5669/2002/07/mosaic.html/news Dalrymple, Jim. "MacCentral Mosaic auction coming to Macworld Expo."] 2002-7-1, retrieved April 19, 2008</ref> * January 16, 2003 Beginning of the thread to create MacCentral Forum Mosaic 2003.<ref>[http://workwithpete.com/?p=40 Mrsich, Pete, "Work With Pete", MacCentral Mosaic] 2007-10-29, Retrieved April 19, 2008</ref> * August 8, 2003 Beginning of the thread to create MacCentral Forum 2004 Mosaic. * December 14, 2007 Forums integrated into the Macworld website as MacCentral Alumni. * January 3, 2008 Forums changed to read only. * March 3, 2008 Forum database made inaccessible by Macworld. * November, 2008 Stan's Lounge is moved to MacTech servers and quickly becomes a haven for lost MacCentral and [[MacMinute]] Forum members. * December 10, 2008 James Dalrymple announces that the old MacCentral Forums are now in read/write format at www.maccenralforums.com * April 14, 2009 The anniversary of Stan Flack's death finds the MacCentral/MacMinute forum operating within the MacTech website. Stan's Lounge is still averaging over 300 posts per day. * October 28, 2010 Polymerase is banned.{{clarify|date=February 2020}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.macworld.com/article/1132981/stan_flack.htm Stan Flack missed]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} This page has been removed. [http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/04/14/stan.flack.passes/ Try this one] * [http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=16432 R.I.P. Stan] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120305041918/http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F100483-stan-flack-maccentral-and-macminute-founder-passes-away%2F Messages on forum] * [http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/MacCentral_MacMinute_Founder_Dies/ Condolences from Mac observer] * [http://www.macnews.com/macminute Stan's legacy] * [http://anewtake.com/2012/09/jim-dalrymple-interview/ In the beginning there was Stan and Jim.] {{DEFAULTSORT:Maccentral}} [[Category:Macintosh websites]] [[Category:Computer magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Macintosh magazines]] [[Category:Magazines established in 1995]]
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