Bajtek

{{Short description|Computer magazine in Poland (1985–1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}

{{Infobox magazine

| title = Bajtek

| image_file = File:Bajtek_February_1993_Issue_Cover.jpg

| image_caption = February 1993 cover

| publisher = Wydawnictwo Bajtek

| founder = Waldemar Siwiński

| firstdate = 1985

| finaldate = 1996

| country = Poland

| based = Warsaw

| language = Polish

| issn = 0860-1674

| oclc = 68735290

}}

Bajtek is one of the first popular magazines devoted to computer science in Poland. Its title was a reference to the computer term byte and to the American magazine Byte. The founder was Waldemar Siwiński.{{cite web|title=Waldemar Siwiński |url=http://ireg-observatory.org/en_old/executive-committee/10-waldemar-siwinski|work=IREG|accessdate=13 February 2020}} The magazine was very well known in the late 1980s in the country.{{cite book|author1=Gerard Alberts|author2=Ruth Oldenziel|author2-link=Ruth Oldenziel|title=Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8RsBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136|date=3 September 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4471-5493-8|page=136}} It was published between 1985 and 1996.{{Cite web|url=https://gameplay.pl/news.asp?ID=56956|title=Kultowe gazety - Bajtek 11/1986 - ostatnia puszka|author=Fulko de Lorche|website=gameplay.pl|access-date=19 March 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://twojepc.pl/artykuly.php?id=Pixel-Heaven-2016-relacja|title=Pixel Heaven 2016 - relacja z imprezy na RetroGraczy - Retro magia|access-date=19 March 2018|language=pl-PL}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.komputerswiat.pl/gamezilla/publicystyka/2012/7/polskie-magazyny-o-grach-odc-1-jak-to-sie-zaczelo-czyli-bajtek-edukuje-polske|title=Polskie magazyny o grach (odc. 1): Jak to się zaczęło, czyli Bajtek edukuje Polskę|website=Gamezilla|language=pl|access-date=12 April 2018}} The magazine was inspired by the British magazine Your Computer and the American magazine Compute!. The sponsor of Bajtek was Polish Socialist Youth Union which is also known as ZSMP.{{cite book|author1=Juliane Fürst|author2=Josie McLellan|title=Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAW6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|date=13 December 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4985-2515-2|page=162}}