Anyone who was a teenage geek like me will remember buying computer review magazines from WH Smith - mags so engorged with ads for mail order PC sellers, they were as thick as your mother’s Grattan catalogue.  But for some those days are coming to an end - Incisive Media is closing Personal Computer World, after 31 years, due to the “unprecedented adverse economic climate”, the publisher tells Press Gazette. There will be some “role redundancies” from the team of 12; there’s no suggestion PCW’s website will continue.

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Incisive says: “Advertisement and copy sale revenues have declined in parallel with the contraction of the monthly personal computer magazine market, to the point that the title is no longer economically viable ... Sadly, no amount of hard work or innovation was going to turn around the structural decline in advertising and newsstand sales. The depth of this recession and the ease of access to information online has only served to accelerate the long-term downward trend within this particular sector.”