sometimes life presents you with a choice: you can spend a sunday in the comforts of home, or you can drive 4 hours to rescue 40 issues of Wired mag from hitting the recycle bin
the seller planned to toss these the next morning if someone didn’t pick them up. these 42 issues span 2000 to 2004 - fairly fascinating time in big tech, during and after the dotcom crash.
when he handed over the magazines he noticed I was smiling. he asked what I was planning to do with them.
“Read them!”
I handed him $20 and he looked genuinely sad, like he had just sold a six year old a bag of magic beans.
The rear cover of a 2002 wired magazine showing an iMac G4. “The new iMac”.
the covers of four issues of wired magazine, from 2000 to 2004.
Top left, clockwise:
Microsoft introduces the xbox in 2001
An issue on Moby and music in 2002
an issue on linus torvalds and free open source software in 2004
an issue on microsoft’s antitrust case in 2000.
Four years worth of wired magazine spines, stacked on top of each other. Each issue has the multicoloured striped spine that wired was famous for.