Founded by ; early backing from Charlie Jackson and Nicholas Negroponte (MIT Media Lab, who wrote the back-page column for six years). Cover: Bruce Sterling. First issue covered military simulations, Japanese otaku (Karl Taro Greenfeld), and listed contributors' email addresses. Distributed free at CES 1993. (Sources: Wired's own oral history, Wikipedia.)

Louis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, Ian Charles Stewart