Mark Pelczarski wrote and published some of the earliest digital multimedia computer software.
[1] Pelczarski was hired as an editor at SoftSide magazine in 1980, but then left to start Penguin Software in 1981 to publish his optimistically-titled Complete Graphics System, which included digital imaging and 3D wireframe rendering.
[2] In the next year he co-wrote and published Special Effects and Graphics Magician with David Lubar, who was then writing for Creative Computing magazine.
Soon after, he built the digital portion of recording studios for Jimmy Buffett and Dan Fogelberg.
[9][10] As part of the development for the course he wrote Dialogue, one of the first web forum applications, which was made available free to dozens of other universities around the world as they entered into online education.