Question: What year was the first online publication of the computer magazine which gives out Best Soft Awards?

Context articles: Bit-Tech
Trillia Newbell
Russian Journal (website)
Insurgent49
PC Magazine
The Computer Paper
Mapilab
Linda Nagata
MMO Games Magazine
Computer Magazine

Bit-Tech is an online magazine for computer hardware enthusiasts, gamers and case modders, based in the UK.
 It was founded in 2000, became a fully professional online publication in 2005, and announced its acquisition by Dennis Publishing in October 2008.
 Dennis Publishing then partnered the site with existing monthly publication Custom PC magazine, making Bit-Tech the online version of the magazine.
 At this point the two editorial teams were totally integrated.
 However, due to a restructure in January 2012 the website and magazine now have separate editors again, although several of the writers still contribute material to both publications.
 It is now owned by The Media Team.
Trillia Newbell is the Director of Community Outreach for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
 She is the author of "United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity (2014)", "Fear and Faith: Finding the Peace Your Heart Craves (2015)", and her "Enjoy: Finding the Freedom to Delight Daily in God’s Good Gifts (2016)".
 In addition to her writing and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Newbell gives speeches at churches, universities, conventions, and conferences.
 She has written for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, The Gospel Coalition, Ligonier Ministries, Desiring God, Christianity Today, and the online blog of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
 Newbell is the founder and former managing editor of the Women of God Magazine, a defunct online publication.
 She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and two children.
Russian Journal (Russian: Русский журнал ) is a primarily Russian language online publication founded by political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky and others.
 It was the first Russian political tribune in the Internet.
 It is a daily online publication devoted to cultural, political and social issues in Russia.
 It is a non-profit, educational project.
 For more information, please read the Letter from the Editor.
 The original Russian Journal was founded on July 14, 1997.
 The English version was launched in December 2001.
 Its chief sections are: On Reading, Politics, Entertainment, Web Stylistics and Essays & Views.
Insurgent49 was an alternative monthly newspaper based in Anchorage, Alaska.
 It was initially established as a website, which was updated weekly.
 The first online edition was published April 1, 2005; the first print edition was published October 2005.
 The paper continued print publication through the March issue, but reverted to online publication only as of the April 2006 edition.
 At the 2006 Alaska Press Club Conference, the paper received several awards.
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
 A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009.
 Publication of online editions started in late 1994 and continues to this day.
The Computer Paper (sometimes referred to as TCP, for a time "HUB", and then "HUB-The Computer Paper") was a monthly computer magazine that was published in Canada (both in print and online) from February 1988 until November 2008.
 The magazine was originally published by Canada Computer Paper Inc.
 It was purchased in 1997 by Hebdo Mag International of Paris, France, and then to Piccolo Publishing Ltd of Toronto in 2003.
 Publication ceased in November 2008 due to declining ad revenues.
The MAPILab company is a developer of software for message exchange and team collaboration.
 MAPILab have produced software for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Excel.
 The company was founded in 2003.
 The office of the company is located in the Russian city of Kaliningrad.
 There are 30 employees in the company, all of them have a higher education.
 Being a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the MAPILab company receives the prerelease versions of Microsoft products and updates beforehand and has extended access to technical information and support, which allows to maintain the high quality of products all the time.
 The MAPILab software supports English, German and Russian languages.
 All products have a trial version and are available for downloading from the company website.
 The quality of the MAPILab titles was certified by Microsoft and VeriTest.
 Some of them got the MSD2D People Choice and PC Magazine Best Soft awards.
 The MAPILab products are placed on the Microsoft Office Online and Windows Catalog websites.
Linda Nagata (born November 7, 1960 in San Diego, California) is a Hawaii-based American author of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy novels, novellas, and short stories.
 Her novella "Goddesses" was the first online publication to win the Nebula Award.
 She frequently writes in the Nanopunk genre, which features nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.
MMO Games Magazine (formerly "Massive Magazine") was a short-lived computer magazine that focused on the massively multiplayer online gaming market.
 It was published by the media conglomerate theGlobe.com as a sister publication to "Computer Games" magazine.
 The magazine's website was launched in June 2006, and the first issue hit newsstands that September.
 In January 2007 the magazine began to be published quarterly.
 Despite the build-up, only three issues went to press.
 In March 2007, theGlobe.com was forced to cease operation of its print media, including "MMO Games", as a result of an unfavorable ruling in a spam lawsuit.
Computer Magazine (and their website www.ComputerMagazine.com) is a popular magazine and online news site on computing and technology, offering current news and reviews of popular and new business and consumer technologies, software, hardware, mobile computing, tablets, PCs, Macs, Windows, Linux, telecom, cellular, wireless, data, cloud and science news on digital technologies and everything in the "tech-sphere and digi-verse", especially focused on information technology, devices, software and services and related subjects, such as networking, servers, data centers and corporate data infrastructure technologies, and the Internet.
 Their online site, since 1997, is located at ComputerMagazine.com.
 "Computer Magazine" produces industry instructional and a popular ongoing webcast/podcast talk show and performs evaluations and reviews of IT industry technology products, hardware, software and services with objective reporting widely respected as independent and objective, and trusted in the industry.
 "Computer Magazine" is a free publication (in addition to their webcasts and other resources) sponsored by the nonprofit UTCP (United Technology and Computing Professionals) organization, and as such charges no fees for the publication nor is influenced by advertising, so their reviews are relied on in the industry and considered unbiased and thorough.
 "Computer Magazine" is one of the early large technology publications and resources available on the web still existent and thriving today and that has remained independent.
 ComputerMagazine.com is a tech news and resources consolidator that publishes part of the site in a semi-time line/blogging format that is popular among their wide following of subscriber and non-subscriber readers, allowing readers to respond and comment on various articles.
 Site contributors include many of the well known technology authors, experts and publication sources, content and articles are provided by major technology syndicators and by external expert technology sources (such as "Computer World", "Information Week", "Network World", "Wired," "Time", etc.) as well as "Computer Magazine" staff writers, and is currently managed and edited by the industry veteran Christopher Swearingin an MCSE and former CIO and regarded author as well as contributor/reporter for "Computer Magazine" and other publications.