{"id":174729,"date":"2026-01-05T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:45:14","slug":"stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87\/\">Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-05 15:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stewart Cheifet, a television producer and host, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia.<\/li>\n<li>He created and hosted Computer Chronicles, a PBS series that ran from 1983 to 2002 and educated millions of viewers on personal computers.<\/li>\n<li>The show covered major technological advancements from early PCs and Macintosh models to the World Wide Web and the dot-com boom, showcasing hardware and software through demonstrations and interviews.<\/li>\n<li>Cheifet co-hosted Computer Chronicles with Gary Kildall from 1983 to 1990, interviewing notable figures like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos.<\/li>\n<li>From 1996 to 2002, he produced and hosted Net Cafe, a companion series focused on the early Internet and emerging websites such as Yahoo, Google, and eBay.<\/li>\n<li>Computer Chronicles started as a local series in 1981 and became a national PBS series in 1983, producing 433 episodes over 19 seasons.<\/li>\n<li>After the show ended, Cheifet worked to preserve its legacy by consulting for the Internet Archive, ensuring the episodes were made available to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Cheifet, PBS host who chronicled the PC revolution, dies at 87 https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/01\/stewart-cheifet-pbs-host-who-chronicled-the-pc-revolution-dies-at-87\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cheifet_obit-1152x648.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174731,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174729\/revisions\/174731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}