Wired is a popular print magazine that centers on technology news and technology-related topics, but also features stories on cultural and political news. The magazine currently operates a popular website that features many of the print articles and additional features as well. Wired Magazine began publication in 1993 as a division of Conde Nast Publications. Wired Magazine and Wired News, the online version of the magazine, merged in 2006, as the result of a 25 million dollar buyout by Conde Nast.

Wired Magazine also owns a popular online blog entitled GeekDad, as well as a number of other technology related blogs that are written by users of the site. In addition, Wired Magazine also has an online gadget lab, that shows users the results of tests on the latest gadget releases.

Wired Magazine was founded by journalists Louis Rosetto and Jane Metcalf with the initial financial backing of software entrepreneurs Nicholas Negroponte and Charlie Jackson of MIT. The first editor-in-chief of the magazine was Kevin Kelly, noted founder of the WELL and former editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and Whole Earth Review. Kelly brought with him a number of other former Whole Earth writers and staff members.

Today, Wired Magazine has become one of the most reputable and reliable sources of technology related news and information for people from a variety of backgrounds. Wired is credited with coining a number of popular terms that refer to today's internet-based society, including "the long tail" and "crowdsourcing."

Wired rose to prominence during the "dot-com boom" amid fierce competition from a number of internet news sources. But unlike most of its competitors, Wired survived the "dot-com crash" and has won several publishing awards. In 1998, Wired was purchased by Advance Publications and assigned to subsidiary Conde Nast Publications.

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