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Wired Looks Back At 'Mondo 2000'
destinyland writes: On a day when America looks back on those who came before, Wired is remembering a pioneering technology magazine named Mondo 2000 — and sharing video of its editors' legendary appearance on a mid-90s PBS series, "The Internet Cafe". When its host questioned them about cyberpunk, they turned the interview into an ironic media stunt by providing a live, sneering cyberpunk model named Malice (wearing a fake neural implant on his head), as the words "real cyberpunk" jokingly flashed on the bottom of the screen. "At a time when few people outside academia had access to the internet, Mondo 2000 was many a wannabe hacker's introduction to the online world," Wired remembers fondly, even acknowledging that they'd "borrowed" their own magazine's design motif from Mondo 2000, in those early years before ISPs started popularizing consumer internet access.
I used to enjoy " Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia" before they sold out. "Wired", while not quite as good, started off well before it was taken over by The Man.
Wired was cool in the 90s but eventually I lost interest and my subscription lapsed. Little did I know in the fine print they would send you to collections for not renewing a subscription. Yes bill collectors were calling me over $12 for not renewing. Imagine a grocery store sending me a bill for NOT buying a box of cereal one week. Fuck Wired.
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https://archive.org/details/mo... has a few, if you have some they are missing scan and upload them :)
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They have some good articles mixed in with the geekporn, although the same has been said of Playboy magazine.
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