The current issue of Wired features an A-Z of prominent topics covered during their 20-year history. In a rare instance most of the material from the print magazine is available on their website. They've even built a cool online interface to access their A-Z list, that I highly recommend.
I thought I'd share most of the list here. The list is an excellent showcase of the huge number of changes and trends of digital media and technology. It's also a nostalgic trip and test of one's wired cred. How many do you know?
- Angry Birds
- Apps
- Arab Spring
- Banner Ad
- Beta
- Big Data
- Blogger
- Carpal Tunnel
- Code
- Comics
- Convergence
- Crowdsourcing
- Darpa
- Design
- Dreams
- Electric Car
- Emoji
- Etsy
- Failure
- Faking It
- Flickr
- Friendster
- GIFs
- Geek
- Gmail
- Goatse
- HTTP
- Hacker
- Higgs Boson
- Hypertext
- IPO
- Jargon
- Kickstarter
- Kottke.org
- Kozmo
- Maker Movement
- Memes
- Microsoft
- Napster
- Neurodiversity
- Nintendo
- Onion, The
- Online Dating
- Porn
- Printing
- QR Code
- Science
- Screen Names
- Share Economy
- Silicon Valley
- Silk Road
- Snark
- Sony
- Storage
- Stuxnet
- TED Talks
- Titans
- Trolling
- Turing
- Tweet
- UX
- Viral
- Virtual Communities
- WIRED 01.01
- Wikileaks
- Yelp
- ZeuS
- xkcd
I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't know six of the above items at all (a couple of which I'm glad I never heard of), and I forgot the names of two.
I omitted their list of people, as did Wired for their online version as the print edition includes many luminaries' profiles. But I believe that although some individuals have contributed greatly to the development to key companies and technologies, it has been all of us that really made these concepts a reality.
I'm looking forward to Wired's next 20 years and hopefully by then I'll have an e-Reader or tablet to read it on and won't be needing print editions finally.
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