John C. Dvorak Biography
John C. Dvorak is a technology and computing columnist and presenter from the United States. His literary career began in the 1980s when he was a frequent contributor for a number of periodicals. He was the vice president of Mevio and has hosted TechTV and TWiT.tv. He is currently a co-host of the podcast No Agenda.
How old as of John C. Dvorak? – Age
He is 71 years old as of 5 April 2023. He was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
John C. Dvorak Wife
On August 8, 1988, Dvorak married Mimi Smith-Dvorak. He is classified as a Universal Life Church minister. On No Agenda #600, he revealed that he occasionally blogs online under the alias Mark Pugner.
John C. Dvorak Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
John C. Dvorak Periodicals
Dvorak began his career as a wine critic. He has contributed to InfoWorld, PC Magazine (two different columns since 1986), MarketWatch, BUG Magazine (Croatia), and Info Exame (Brazil). He has written for Boardwatch, Forbes, Forbes.com, MacUser, MicroTimes, PC/Computing, Barron’s Magazine, Smart Business, and The Vancouver Sun, among other publications. (The MicroTimes column was titled Dvorak’s Last Column.) Among other publications, he has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, MacMania Networks, The International Herald Tribune, The San Francisco Examiner, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Dvorak invented a few tech inside jokes. In episode 18 of TWiT (This Week in Tech), he said that his server provider ensures that he “gets no spam.”
John C. Dvorak Books
Dvorak has written or co-written over a dozen books, including Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of the Osborne Computer Corporation with Adam Osborne and Dvorak’s Guide to Desktop Telecommunications in 1990, Dvorak’s Guide to PC Telecommunications (Osborne McGraw-Hill, Berkeley, California, 1992), Dvorak’s Guide to OS/2 (Random House, New York, 1993) with co-authors Dave Whittle and Martin McElroy, Dvor
John C. Dvorak Career
Dvorak was in the beginning up group for CNET Organizations, showing up on the TV program CNET Focal. He likewise facilitated a public broadcast called Genuine Figuring, and later ‘In fact Talking’ on NPR, as well as a network show on TechTV (previously ZDTV) called Silicon Twist.
He showed up on Marketwatch television and This Week in Tech, a webcast sound and presently video program facilitated by Leo Laporte and highlighting other previous TechTV characters like Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron. Dvorak was once prohibited from the show. In Walk 2006, he began another show called CrankyGeeks, where he drove an alternating board of “cantankerous” tech masters in conversations of innovation reports of the week. The last episode (No. 237) circulated on September 22, 2010.
In 2007, Mevio employed Dvorak as VP and Overseeing Manager for another Mevio TECH channel, where he oversees content from existing Mevio tech programming. He likewise facilitated the show “Tech5”, where he examined the day’s tech news in around five minutes; it finished creation in late 2010. He co-has a digital recording with Mevio prime supporter Adam Curry called No Plan. The show is a discussion about the week’s news, happenings in the existences of the hosts and their families, and eatery surveys from the meals Dvorak and Curry have together when they are in a similar city (generally San Francisco). Curry generally has more stunning assessments of the week’s news or world occasions, while Dvorak plays the straight man in the discourse.
Since mid 2011, Dvorak has been one of the highlighted “CoolHotNot Tech Xperts,” alongside Chris Pirillo, Jim Louderback, Dave Graveline, Robin Raskin, Dave Shave, Steve Bass, and Cheryl Currid, at CoolHotNot’s site, He shares his “Cherished Rundown” of most loved customer gadgets, his “Needed Rundown” of tech items he might want to attempt, and his “Setback Rundown” of tech items he viewed as disheartening.
Dvorak facilitated the show X3, which, similar to the dead Tech 5, was a short tech-centered cast. Not at all like Tech 5, it was in video design, with two co-has. The last update was 24 June 2012.
Since September 2009, Dvorak has facilitated the DH Turned off webcast with individual cash administrator Andrew Horowitz. He is a prime supporter, with Gina Smith and the late Jerry Pournelle, of the site aNewDomain.net, where he is likewise a feature writer.
In September 2015, Leo Laporte scandalously “prohibited” Dvorak — his long-term companion and regular visitor — from Joke for remarks Dvorak made on Twitter. In answer to Dvorak’s remarks that Laporte was one-sided, Laporte told Dvorak “you will not at any point need to stress over it once more”, implying that he never needed Dvorak back on Joke. Dvorak got back to Joke on December 23, 2018.
On February 19, 1984, in an article in The San Francisco Inspector, Dvorak recorded the mouse as one of many reasons Mac Inc’s. Mac PC probably won’t find success: “The Mac utilizes a trial pointing gadget called a ‘mouse’. There is no proof that individuals need to utilize these things.” In 1987 he returned to the article and retracted, expressing “The Macintosh mouse is perfect. I’ve been changed over.”
In 1985, following Steve Occupations leaving Mac, Dvorak stated, “Perhaps after everything settles down, we will have heard the remainder of Steve Occupations as master, soothsayer, visionary and hapless casualty as well … He’ll go the method of pet stone, electric cutting blades, senseless clay, Small Tim, and the three-tone paint work. Hopefully so.”: 58
In the May 26, 1987 release of PC Mag, Dvorak explored the beginning of the term geek, crediting and citing Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss) with authoring the expression in 1950 having “never heard the word.”
In his 2007 article for MarketWatch in regards to the iPhone, Dvorak expressed, “On the off chance that [Apple’s] savvy, it will call the iPhone a ‘reference plan’ and pass it to certain suckers to work with another person’s promoting financial plan. Then it can disavow any commercial center disappointments. [… ] It ought to do that preceding it’s past the point of no return.”
Dvorak has referenced in the past that he honestly loves MorphOS and involved the Video Toaster oven in its prime. In 2018 he composed an article on Medium in which he guaranteed he was terminated from PC Magazine as a result of an article he composed that scrutinized the security of 5G.