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100-word version, wired

Wired's first issue

Wired is 15 years old. Fimoculous blogger Rex Sorgatz celebrated the milestone with a retrospective look at the magazine's first issue. He calls it a summary, but who ever heard of a 1,600-word summary? Too long. Here's the 100-word version of Wired 1.1.

Staff Box: Started by Rossetto and Metcalfe, Wired opened with unknowns. Names now recognized: Rheingold, Sterling, Brand, Markoff, Wolff, Negroponte and McLuhan. Tired / Wired: Front of the book. Nintendo tired, painting wired, and REM tired. Jurassic Park. Review of a print zine called bOING bOING. Features: Paglia about McLuhan. A virtual war story. Cellphone hacking. Free software story doesn't include the phrase "open source." Ads: Unintelligible then as now. Design: Comparable to once-edgy Pat Benatar videos. The Negroponte Index: Negroponte: "High-definition television is clearly irrelevant." Colophon: The means of production. Apple Macintosh II, HP Scanjet IIc, Quark XPress, Farallon, Dinosaur Jr., Curve, k.d. lang, caffeine, sugar, Advil.

8:00 AM on Sat Feb 9 2008
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rex at 10:52 AM on 02/09/08
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At no point did I say the word "summary"!

(I could've written another 1600 word, easy.)
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The word "Internet" did not appear in issue #1.
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