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Wired 1.1: An Archaeology

Wired magazine turns 15 years old this month. This column looks back at the very first issue.

Wired didn’t even bother with a Beta release. It bustled onto the publishing scene 15 years ago this month, chirping like a broken modem and shrink-wrapped as a point release: Issue 1.1.

Peeling back those matte pages now, one can’t help falling victim to a bit of nostalgia for this town crier of the proto-digital era. There was no logical reason that this magazine should even have…