It is an interesting comparison: There used to be a lot of different electronics hobbyist magazine titles in the U.S. over the years. At one time, there might be as many as six or seven titles in print. Now there is only one in the U.S. (Nuts & Volts) and it is almost 100% dedicated to processors vs. "discrete" electronics for it's projects. There used to be quite a few electronics forums on the Internet, and there were at least three or four that were very popular and heavily-used. Now, ElectroTech seems to be the only one that remains that is still very active (sometimes almost too active, if that's possible) while the remaining ones are pretty dormant, to the point that you see posts like, "Is anybody still here?" Then on this forum, I see denizens whose post count exceeds 4 or 5 thousand, and I wonder, "Do these guys have a life?" Ah, well .... each to his own.