Yes, its fascinating that it went where the market was driven - by the markets hooks in its own advertising pages - and in that capacity, BYTE became a driving force for the early computing revolution not just (but also because of) the readership, but also their advertisers - inasmuch as that revolution could be defined as "wide adoption of new and emerging technologies to form a standard" - BYTE started as a user manual and ended its existence as a catalog of things with user manuals.

Probably, if one thinks about it, one of the more eloquent data structures in human existence, BYTE.