Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine

Magazine

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 published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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, the well-known web portal

Web portal

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 and search engine

Web search engine

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 website. It was created and launched by G. Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV Guide.

It dealt with the emerging Internet

Internet

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 and computer

Computer

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 culture of the late 1990s and early 2000s. It folded on July 2, 2002.

The magazine featured a regular column by film-critic Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 and others and had many reviews of various kinds of webpages and tech

Technology

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 gadgets. Editors included Stevan Keane, Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman

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, Larry Smith

Larry Smith

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, David Thomas, Ron Bel Bruno, Bilge Ebiri

Bilge Ebiri

Bilge Ebiri is a Turkish American journalist and filmmaker. He was born in 1973 in York, England. Currently, Ebiri is a film critic for New York Magazine and Nerve.com...

, and Rob Bernstein. The design director was Gail Ghezzi.

The magazine explored potentially controversial tech-related issues such as pornography and peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer

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 technology. Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...

appeared (apparently topless, but with strategically crossed hands) on the cover of the Internet music issue.

External links

• Yahoo! Internet Life archive via web.archive.org.