Wired is 15 years old. Fimoculous blogger Rex Sorgatz celebrated the milestone with a retrospective look at the magazine's first issue. He calls it a summary, but who ever heard of a 1,600-word summary? Too long. Here's the 100-word version of Wired 1.1.

Staff Box: Started by Rossetto and Metcalfe, Wired opened with unknowns. Names now recognized: Rheingold, Sterling, Brand, Markoff, Wolff, Negroponte and McLuhan. Tired / Wired: Front of the book. Nintendo tired, painting wired, and REM tired. Jurassic Park. Review of a print zine called bOING bOING. Features: Paglia about McLuhan. A virtual war story. Cellphone hacking. Free software story doesn't include the phrase "open source." Ads: Unintelligible then as now. Design: Comparable to once-edgy Pat Benatar videos. The Negroponte Index: Negroponte: "High-definition television is clearly irrelevant." Colophon: The means of production. Apple Macintosh II, HP Scanjet IIc, Quark XPress, Farallon, Dinosaur Jr., Curve, k.d. lang, caffeine, sugar, Advil.

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