11 Facts About Wired Magazine

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However, Wired News remained responsible for republishing Wired magazine's content online due to an agreement when Conde Nast purchased the magazine.

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HotWired Magazine spawned websites Webmonkey, the search engine HotBot, and a weblog, Suck.

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

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Under Anderson, Wired Magazine has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 "Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy" story, the November 2003 "Open Source Everywhere" issue, the February 2004 "Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye" issue (which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term "the Long Tail".

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In 2005, Wired received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the category of 500, 000 to 1, 000, 000 subscribers.

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In 2008, Wired was nominated for three National Magazine Awards and won the ASME for Design.

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In 2009, Wired was nominated for four National Magazine Awards – including General Excellence, Design, Best Section, and Integration – and won three: General Excellence, Design, and Best Section.

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8.

David Rowan from Wired Magazine UK was awarded the BSME Launch of the Year 2009 Award.

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9.

On December 14, 2009, Wired magazine was named Magazine of the Decade by the editors of Adweek.

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In May 2013, Wired Magazine was included in Conde Nast Entertainment with the announcement of five original webseries, including the National Security Agency satire Codefellas and the animated advice series Mister Know-It-All.

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From 2004 to 2008, Wired Magazine organized an annual "festival of innovative products and technologies".

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