ComputerBase
German online magazine
ComputerBase is a German IT online magazine.
History
ComputerBase GmbH (based in Berlin) had previously been marketed by AOL Advertising before moving to FreeXmedia amid the winding down of AOL's German ad-sales operation.
In 2008, the German web-traffic audit IVW reported that ComputerBase was listed among major online sites with 21.65 million page impressions.
In April 2010, W&V reported that FreeXmedia, an online advertising sales house of the Freenet AG, expanded its IT-channel portfolio by adding the websites WinFuture.de and ComputerBase.de. The report also cited figures of 1.08 million unique users for ComputerBase.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “ComputerBase” is german online magazine. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through ComputerBase, German and online, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “german online magazine” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1122143. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2010.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “ComputerBase” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.