] That winter, it finally began to rain again in
] California. The rain came in torrents, in sheets. Streets
] flooded, and houses slid off oceanside hills. On San
] Francisco's Second Street, in a large, drafty office, a
] half-dozen editors were putting together the first issue
] of Wired. The staff had a strange confidence, even a
] fanaticism, and soon after the turn of the year, the
] first fluorescent and brightly metallic pages came off
] the printer. They had made a magazine in the form of a
] manifesto.
]
] In early 1993, as Communism collapsed and the terrors of
] the Cold War era vanished in the rearview mirror, a new
] magazine startled its readers with the proclamation that
] governments were obsolete, technology was benevolent, and
] the future was going to be great. Nearly 100,000 readers
] signed up in the first 12 months. The mood had changed. Too bad its changed back. The Way We Were - Wired turns 10 |
