15th Anniversary: 5 Things Wired Pronounced Dead Prematurely

Commercial Web publishing (April 1996)

- Commercial Web publishing (April 1996) Online news sites everywhere respectfully disagree.

  • Web browsers (March 1997) Push media was about to supersede browsers. Or not. If we could push this claim from the archives, we would.
  • Online song swapping (December 2002) Kazaa? LimeWire? BitTorrent? D'oh!
  • Futurism (December 2003) Predicting the death of predictions? Niiiice.
  • Brands (november 2004) Would someone please tell the tweens — and Abercrombie & Fitch, purveyors of the finest softcore billboards?

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