Learned about this last night and needless to say it was a gut punch. There is a whole generation of us that have Gordon to thank for our monthly pilgrimage to the magazine section looking for the latest edition of Maximum PC. Once a year we were treated to a buffet of hardware with amazingly high specs and prices to match with these Dream Machines later serving as mental checkpoints of the eras fastest personal compute. The. There was the effort that Gordon put into consumer advocacy in his columns, bad parts, badder corporate practices, and he was there fighting for us on the printed page.
Thanks for mentioning this here, I learnt a lot more about Gordon from the video there, and I think we all have something to thank Gordon for - both directly and indirectly.
I was a hardcore MaximumPC subscriber for... I don't know, basically 20 years? I was a PC hobbiest basically from 4th grade onward, and MaximumPC was my bible. It helped me decide between the RivaTNT and the 3Dfx Voodoo. It got me obsessed with the Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 sound system that I owned for a decade. It was my touchstone for all things PC building and gaming, and it was fundamentally responsible for so much of my early PC/hacking/tinkering development, and I just remember seeing Gordon Mah Ung's bylines on _so. very. much._ of the content that I consumed and loved from MaximumPC over those years.
It's hard to overstate how important his contributions were to someone anonymous like me during those formative years, but they were. RIP, Gordon. Damn.
So saddened by this news. I worked with Gordon. He had a wonderful sense of humor. Was a true believer, die hard technologist, uncompromising, witty and honest. Will be having a drink here in his honor shortly.
A lot of my teenage years were spent building and playing with PCs and a lot of the knowledge and interest came from reading each and every issue of boot and maximum pc
Why are so many people dying of pancreatic cancer? What is going on with this, it’s terrifying that this disease is on the rise but it can’t be detected before it’s too late
With cancer, it’s exceedingly difficult to narrow down a cause unless someone was a smoker or was otherwise exposed to a very potent carcinogen or to abnormal amounts of radiation. Every day, humans are exposed to a variety of chemicals, metals, pollutants, and so on. For things that are suddenly increasing, we’d need hard and unbiased information about every common product, all nearby sources of pollution, everything in a persons normal diet, and so on. It isn’t easy.
> Gordon studied journalism at San Francisco State University and then worked as a police reporter for the Contra Costa Times in the late 1990s. In 1997, he joined Computerworld (a PCWorld sister publication) before I recruited him to join boot magazine (later re-launched as Maximum PC), where he would ultimately lead hardware coverage for 16 years.
Rest in peace Gordon.
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