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Wired used to be a really interesting magazine. Now it's just a dumbed-down catalog of high-tech gadgets. Like a SkyMall catalog.
by GnarfGnarf 10y ago
Wired used to be a really interesting magazine. Now it's just a dumbed-down catalog of high-tech gadgets. Like a SkyMall catalog.
- ghaff 10y agoI'm not sure it's quite that bad but I was just thinking the other day that I should find out how to turn off the auto-renew that seems to have been turned on at some point. It's a magazine that I get into the house and I find that I'm in no hurry to read it any longer. It still has pretty nice design but I find very little of the content compelling any more. Yeah, there's occasionally a good article but I'm not subscribing to a print magazine for the odd article here and there.
- nabla9 10y agoWired was silly dumbed-down hype-catalog from the start. It looks better in retrospect when we forget that we were dumb, young and inexperienced when it came out. They had few good articles now and then just like they have now, it depends on what kind of writers they have.
- joezydeco 10y agoMeh, before the first dotcom meltdown it was a toy catalog as well. I recall a pre-christmas issue in 1998 or 1999 that had to be well over 200 pages thick. It sure wasn't full of articles.