> Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?
And not just Wired. It seems everything was more optimistic and exciting 10 years before whenever you’re reading this comment.
And not just Wired. It seems everything was more optimistic and exciting 10 years before whenever you’re reading this comment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/28/business/greenspan-foreca...
In the 1990s, Wired was not merely "infectious and enthusiastic". It was gullibly gung-ho, and ugly as hell. I used a heuristic: if something appeared on the cover of Wired, it was either a fait accompli, or going to fail within a year.
So yeah, 1990s Wired was genuinely different. But often not in a good way.