FamilyPC

FamilyPC was a monthly computer magazine published from 1994 to 2001. The collaboration between Walt Disney Publishing and Ziff-Davis was a brainchild of Jake Winebaum. The magazine was notable for its "Family Testers", who were sent products to review. Near the end of the magazine's existence, the concept of Family Testers was foregone, and staffers wrote the reviews, much like other computing magazines.

The magazine itself covered a wide varieties of topics that applied to families. It would cover and review hardware based upon who it was meant for, it would handle many tech support issues. And even though it did have PC in the title, it also contained articles and reviews for the Apple Macintosh regularly.

In software, it tended to cover education software, further going into Edutainment software, applications, and creativity tools. It also would cover games, though they tended to be extremely popular or very family safe. The exception would be the annual gaming issue they would do. Though they always did some of this before, after the Columbine High School massacre they began to say which age group the game was appropriate for and an explanation of any violence contained in the game.

Towards the end of the 20th century, they did more and more on E-Commerce and places to shop online where one could save money.

Ziff-Davis shut down the magazine in 2002. When FamilyPC was discontinued, Ziff-Davis switched FamilyPC subscribers to PC Magazine.