MacCentral
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MacCentral was the name of a web site that provided news and information for Mac Publishing Web sites, including Macworld.com and Playlist, before being merged with Macworld's own Web operations.
Founded by Canadian businessman Stan Flack in the mid-1990s, MacCentral Online began life as a web site that provided daily news pertinent to the Apple Macintosh computing platform. In 1998, MacCentral Online acquired MacGaming. Shortly thereafter, MacCentral Online was purchased by Mac Publishing, who gradually folded MacCentral's web site into its Macworld brand.
The maccentral.com domain now redirects to www.macworld.com, reflecting the fact that MacCentral is now fully integrated into the Macworld.com domain. One holdover to the original MacCentral site is the continuing presence of a cadre of long time users of the MacCentral Forum. Although barely linked at the very bottom of the MacWorld forum page, MacCentral lives on at MacCentral Forums. At least once a month there is a thread entitled, "This forum is dying." But although at times it might seem cardiac arrest has occurred, a loyal following still uses MacCentral Forums as the first stop for answering a Macintosh or any computer question.
