***Wired*** (called ***WIRED***) is a magazine written in English. It is issued to readers once a month. They also put up their editions on the Internet, on their own website. Their writers write about politics, the economy, and how new technology changes culture. The magazine belongs to a company called Condé Nast, and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

They have other kinds of their magazine like *Wired UK*, *Wired Italia*, etc. In their first "colophons", they said that a Canadian named Marshall McLuhan was their "patron saint". When it started, influence on the magazine’s editorials was strongest about "techno-utopian" stuff.

There is a paywall on the website, which is 20 US dollars a year. During the time Condé Nast owned the magazine, Wired News took care of the website.

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The magazine was started by a journalist named Louis Rossetto and his friend Jane Metcalfe, along with Ian Charles Stewart, in 1993. In the early days, they were backed up by a software entrepreneur named Charlie Jackson and an academic named Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a columnist for six years (through 1998) and wrote the book *Being Digital*. The founding designers were John Plunkett and Barbara Kuhr (Plunkett+Kuhr), starting with a 1991 verson and keeing up through the first five years of their magazine, 1993–98.

*Wired*, who said it was "the *Rolling Stone* of technology", showed off at the Macworld conference on January 2, 1993. It gained success at its launch and was loved by many for its vision, originality, innovation, and cultural impact.[*source?*] In its first four years, the magazine earned two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and one for Design.

Wired building located in San Francisco
The founding executive editor of *Wired*, Kevin Kelly, was once an editor of the *Whole Earth Catalog* and the *Whole Earth Review* and took with him a few contributing writers from those publications. Six writers of the first *Wired* issue (1.1) had made stories for *Whole Earth Review*, with the most famous writer being Bruce Sterling (who was highlighted on the first cover) and Stewart Brand. Other people who contribute to *Whole Earth* were also shown in the magazine, including William Gibson, who was shown on *Wired*'s cover in its first year and his article "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" in issue 1.4 resulted in the publication being banned in Singapore.

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1. ↑  "WMG Media Kit 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 3 March 2018.
2. 1 2  Alex French. "The Very First Issues of 19 Famous Magazines". *Mental Floss*. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
3. ↑  Stahlman, Mark (1996). "The English ideology and Wired Magazine". *Imaginary Futures*. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
4. ↑  Johnson, Eric (February 1, 2018). "Why Wired is still putting out a print magazine in 2018". *Recode*. Vox Media. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
5. ↑  Cobb, Nathan (November 24, 1992). "Terminal Chic: Technology is moving out of computers and into the culture". *The Boston Globe*. p. 29.
6. ↑  Carr, David (July 27, 2003). "The Coolest Magazine on the Planet". *New York Times*.
7. ↑  Mehegan, David (March 1, 1995). "Multimedia Animal Wired Visionary Nicholas Negroponte is MIT's Loud Voice of the Future". *The Boston Globe*. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2018.