OK, chances are reasonably good that you don't, because a lot of you were 8 or something when it came out. I'm talking about WIRED MAGAZINE, the most amazingly amazing thing to ever hit the newsstands. I was a teenager working at a multimedia lab at at a newspaper when it hit. It blew me away. Here it is in all its glory.

Yes, I played an "MMORPG" called MicroMUSE years before the term MMORPG was invented. I actually was messing around (believe it or not) on a VAX VMS system that I had access to because my father was a sort of associate associate professor. Then SunOS I think.

I think I shared with WIRED that I completely missed the boat on the Mosaic browser. I mean, I tried it, but there was nothing on the web to look at. Not even Yahoo! or a search engine. I didn't really get into it until Netscape came out.

But those old WIRED issues were pure magic. Mind expanding. A few years or two in they became boring and corporate, but initially reading it was like having your brain plugged directly into the heart of silicon valley & San Francisco crazy culture.

They always started out with multi-page picture spreads like this one:



What a glorious waste of pages!