Headline : ‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website

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Nostalgia is not our strong suit at WIRED. We rarely look back. But sometimes conscience demands that even we zealots of the future take stock. And so we are solemnly ready to examine our origins.

The internet has gone terribly wrong, or so common wisdom has it. AI has salted the earth with factory-made frankenwords. Online spaces are besieged by bad actors, from roving groypers to troll militias to tyrannical oligarchs. Identity thieves, lie peddlers, and revenge pornographers infest every corner of cyberspace. The only pure thing, maybe, are goat videos.

In retrospect, the three-decade stampede of millions and then billions of people onto some rickety network protocols probably needed a better project manager.

But let’s come clean: WIRED is also part of the problem. Exactly 30 years ago this month, we let the genie out of the bottle when we launched HotWired, our first website—and one of the first media websites ever. With wit and vitality, HotWired covered a new world that traditional media ignored: thrill sports, cocktails, integrative medicine, DJ culture. It was the first website ever to cover a presidential election. It ushered newcomers online with Web 101. It introduced Suck! (Look it up.) HotWired was improv, a startup, an acid test. And it was the web’s keystone.

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