John Battelle, co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote that Page had reasoned that the " entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation – after all, what is a link but a citation?

Jane Metcalfe is the co-founder, with Louis Rossetto, and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of Wired Magazine.

* John Battelle, author, journalist, and co-founder of Wired magazine

Wired magazine, created by Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, mixes new technology, art, literature, and current topics in order to interest today ’ s cyberpunk fans, which Paula Yoo claims " proves that hardcore hackers, multimedia junkies, cyberpunks and cellular freaks are poised to take over the world.

* Louis Rossetto, MBA, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine

* Louis Rossetto ( The Buccaneer ) editor and publisher of Wired and HotWired, and cofounder and CEO of Wired Ventures, Inc.

* Don Swaim: Interview with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 27 May 1983, discussing his discovery of Our Nig, ( mp3 ), Wired for Books, Ohio University

In 1996, Rossetto and the other participants in Wired Ventures attempted to take the company public with an IPO.

Rossetto and Metcalfe lost control of Wired Ventures to financial investors Providence Equity Partners in May 1998, who quickly sold off the company in pieces.

After the failure of Electric Word, Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe moved to San Francisco, California and established Wired Magazine.

In 1991, Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe resettled in the US to raise capital for Wired.

" InfoWorld counted it among the very few weblogs that were " worth a visit ," Brill's Content claimed that it presented " news the way web pioneers envisioned it — hypertextual, wide-reaching, and exhaustive ," Fast Company called it " one of the best Web logs on the Net ," Feed wrote that the site was " frequented by thousands of the Net's most knowledgeable ," Wired hailed it as " one of the oldest and most popular weblogs ," and The New Yorker commended Barger's " healthy appetite for everything from literature to science ," whereas The Register found that " there's no better reader on the Internet than Jorn Barger.

In a Vox interview, lead guitarist Rodney Browning Cravens claimed the band took the name out of a Wired magazine article.

He was Production Editor on Amiga Power magazine ( who claimed he was an alien ) and Reviews Editor for the brief UK edition of Wired magazine.

However, throughout that time, Wired News remained responsible for reprinting Wired magazine's content online, due to a business agreement made when Condé Nast purchased the magazine ( but not the website ).

Wired survived the dot-com bubble and found a new direction under editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, who took on the job in June 2001 and has made the magazine's coverage " more mainstream.

Despite the company's 1998 statement that Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms would be released " soon ", the game remained in development of one form or another for eight years until its release on October 10, 2007, and had been on Wired magazine's top ten vaporware list every year since 2001.

Aside from creating the most influential protocol for networking computer bulletin boards, Jennings built Wired magazine's first internet presence, wrote the portable BIOS that led to Phoenix Technologies BIOS, ran an early regional internet service provider, The Little Garden ( later incorporated as TLGnet, Inc ), and maintains an informal archive of Cold War science and technology.

In June 2008, Beard Papa's was ranked " Wired " by Wired Magazine, the magazine's highest rating, above " Tired " and " Expired ".

* An Artist's Junkyard of Dreams-Article from Wired magazine's Great River Road series.

In 2001 Lanning and McKenna were named to Wired magazine's list of " gamemaking gods ".

It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length.

The first mass media discussion of cypherpunks was in a 1993 Wired article by Steven Levy titled " Code Rebels ":

It received the first place in " Vaporwares 2004 " in Wired News.

Six authors of the first Wired issue ( 1. 1 ) had written for Whole Earth Review, most notably Bruce Sterling and Stewart Brand.

Other contributors to Whole Earth appeared in Wired, including William Gibson, who was featured on Wireds cover in its first year and whose article " Disneyland with the Death Penalty " in issue 1. 4 resulted in the publication being banned in Singapore.

Wired was among the first magazines to list the email address of its authors and contributors.

On May 27, 2010, Wired released its Tablet edition, first available on the iPad.

Embraced by consumers and heralded as the beginning of a new era in publishing, the Wired iPad edition was downloaded an average of 17 times a minute for the first 24 hours, netting 24, 000 + paid subscriptions.

Over the ensuing days, Apple named the Wired Tablet Edition " The App of the Week ," making it the first media brand to earn this acknowledgment ; and the Wired App remained the No. 1 Paid Download on iTunes for 5 consecutive days.

Proudflesh released their first album in March 2006 on Wired Gnome Records.

In its April 2010 issue, the UK edition of Wired magazine covered Papa Sangre from developer Somethin ' Else, a " video game with no video " created entirely in binaural audio and which claims to be the first iPhone game to have an engine that can create binaural audio in real time by processing sound sources using an HRTF.

Images of some of the first attempts at a large scale map of the internet were produced by the Internet Mapping Project and appeared in Wired magazine.

The work first appeared as a magazine article by Brin in Wired in late 1996.

In 1992, Negroponte became involved in the creation of Wired Magazine as the first investor.

Wired attributes the creation to Davidoff but dates the first game to 1987, with 1986 being the year in which Davidoff was starting the work which would produce Mafia.

That first episode includes interviews with talk-show host Joe Franklin and Ira's mother, as well as stories by Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired, and performance artist Lawrence Steger.

The first UK Wired Conference had a test lab, where an independent curator selected technology that showcased radical technology advancements and their impact on society, such as the ability to design and " print " real world objects using 3D printers ( such as a fully working violin ) or the ability to model and represent accurate interactive medical and molecular models in Stereoscopic 3D.

Shortly thereafter, he was hired on as founding executive editor of HotWired, one of the first commercial content web sites published in 1994 by Wired magazine.

Wired once again awarded Duke Nukem Forever the first place in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

While developing the first online, for-profit, media project — the HotWired web site for Wired Magazine — in 1994, they realized that the most commonly used web server software at the time ( developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) could not handle the user registration system that the company required.

It also received the first place in " Vaporwares 2004 " in Wired News.

* Wired Equivalent Privacy ( WEP ), the first security protocol for Wi-Fi, proved vulnerable to several attacks, most of them ciphertext-only.