Wired (magazine) facts for kids
Logo of Wired.
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| Editor-in-Chief | Nicholas Thompson |
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| Former editors | Louis Rossetto |
| Categories | Business, technology, life, thought leader |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Total circulation (January 2017) |
870,101 |
| First issue | March/April 1993 |
| Company | Condé Nast Publications |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 1059-1028 (print) 1078-3148 (web) |
| OCLC | 24479723 |
Wired (also known as WIRED) is a popular magazine published in English. It comes out every month and you can also read it online on its website. The magazine's writers explore how new technology affects our lives, from politics (how governments work) to the economy (how money and jobs work). Wired is owned by a company called Condé Nast and its main office is in San Francisco, California.
Wired also has different versions for other countries, like Wired UK and Wired Italia. When the magazine first started, it was very interested in the idea that technology could make the world a much better place. This idea is sometimes called "techno-utopian." The magazine even looked up to a Canadian thinker named Marshall McLuhan as an inspiration.
You can read many articles on the Wired website for free. However, to get full access to all their content, you need to pay about 20 US dollars each year.
How Wired Magazine Started
The Wired magazine was created in 1993 by a journalist named Louis Rossetto and his friend Jane Metcalfe. They also had help from Ian Charles Stewart. In the beginning, they got support from a software expert named Charlie Jackson and a professor from MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte. Nicholas Negroponte even wrote a column for the magazine for six years and wrote a famous book called Being Digital.
The first designers of Wired were John Plunkett and Barbara Kuhr. They worked on the magazine's look from 1991, even before it officially launched, and continued for its first five years (1993–1998).
Wired quickly became very popular. It was even called "the Rolling Stone of technology." The magazine was first shown to the public at a big computer event called Macworld on January 2, 1993. People loved Wired because it had new ideas, was very creative, and had a big impact on culture. In its first four years, Wired won two important awards called National Magazine Awards for being a great magazine overall and one for its design.
The first main editor of Wired was Kevin Kelly. He used to be an editor for other publications like the Whole Earth Catalog. He brought some writers from those publications to Wired. For example, six writers in the very first issue of Wired had also written for Whole Earth Review. Two of the most famous writers were Bruce Sterling and Stewart Brand. Other writers from Whole Earth also appeared in Wired, including William Gibson. He was featured on Wired's cover in its first year. One of his articles, "Disneyland with the Death Penalty," even caused the magazine to be banned in Singapore for a while.
Images for kids
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Wilco at the Wired Rave Awards in 2003
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Wired NextFest
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The Geekipedia supplement
See also
In Spanish: Wired para niños
