Editing Wired (magazine) (section)

==Website today==
''Wired''{{’}}s web presence started with its launch of Hotwired.com in October 1994. Hotwired was the first website with original content and Fortune 500 advertising. Hotwired grew into a variety of vertical content sites, including Webmonkey, Ask Dr. Weil, Talk.com, WiredNews, and the search engine Hotbot. In 1997, all were rebranded under Wired Digital. The '''''Wired.com''''' website, formerly known as '''''Wired News''''' and ''[[HotWired|Hotwired]]'', launched in October 1994.<ref>Jeffrey Veen, ''[[HotWired Style]]'', 1997, pp. 14–15.</ref> The website and magazine were split in 1998, when the former was sold to [[Condé Nast Publishing|Condé Nast]] and the latter to [[Lycos]]<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Lycos Acquires Wired Digital |url=https://www.wired.com/1998/10/lycos-acquires-wired-digital/ |magazine=Wired |date=6 October 1998 |issn=1059-1028 |access-date=2024-04-22 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240422212337/https://www.wired.com/1998/10/lycos-acquires-wired-digital/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in September 1998. The two remained independent until Condé Nast purchased ''Wired News'' on July 11, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/ |title= WN: Wired News |date= December 30, 2005 |work=[[Wired News]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051230020736/http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/ |archive-date= December 30, 2005 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> This move finally reunited the ''Wired'' brand.

As of August 2023, ''Wired.com'' is [[paywall]]ed. Users may only access a limited number of articles per month without payment.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Eric |date=February 1, 2018 |title=Paywalls make content better, Wired editor Nick Thompson says |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16957324/wired-paywall-nick-thompson-magazine-advertising-subscription-peter-kafka-recode-media-podcast |archive-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180303050514/https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16957324/wired-paywall-nick-thompson-magazine-advertising-subscription-peter-kafka-recode-media-podcast |url-status=dead |work=[[Recode]] |access-date= March 2, 2018 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Today, ''Wired.com'' hosts several technology [[blog]]s on topics in security, business, new products, culture, and science.

; NextFest{{Anchor|NexFest}}[[File:Wired nextfest logo.png|thumb|300px|''Wired'' NextFest]]

From 2004 to 2008, ''Wired'' organized an annual "festival of innovative products and technologies".<ref name="Wired NextFest">{{cite magazine |title=Wired Nextfest |url=http://www.wirednextfest.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427012231/http://www.wirednextfest.com/ |archive-date=April 27, 2009 |magazine=Wired |df=mdy-all }}</ref> A NextFest for 2009 was canceled.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moses |first=Lucia |date=July 31, 2009 |title=Wired Magazine Cancels NextFest |url=http://www.adweek.com/news/press/wired-magazine-cancels-nextfest-113047 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830191318/https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/wired-magazine-cancels-nextfest-113047/ |archive-date=August 30, 2023 |url-status=live |work=[[Adweek]] |access-date=October 15, 2015 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2018, ''Wired'' hosted "Wired 25", a celebration of its 25 years, an event which included Jeff Bezos, Jack Dorsey, and many of the other founders of the tech industry.