Wired Magazine 1998 (12 issues)
Year First Appeared
1998
Creator
Louis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, Katrina Heron
Complete 12‑issue 1998 run of WIRED (Vol. 6), capturing late‑'90s internet culture at the height of the boom, from January’s “Power to the People”/“Change Is Good” issue to August’s Bill Joy Jini vision and year‑end Y2K coverage, packed with pioneering reporting on networked computing, business, and digital culture.
Importance in Internet Culture
WIRED 1998 helped mainstream ambitious ideas about distributed, networked computing (the one huge computer) and framed the dot‑com surge and Y2K anxieties, shaping how the early web era was understood. As contemporaries noted, the magazine was indispensable to the rise of cyber‑business and cyber‑culture.
Interesting Fact
WIRED’s first full redesign debuted in February 1998, and the magazine welcomed its second editor‑in‑chief, Katrina Heron, beginning with the March issue.