Wired: 15th Anniversary: The Rantiest Reader Rants Ever

A decade and a half of provocative content has inspired plenty of letters to the editor. Some of them have been thoughtful and constructive, others just plain rude. Sticks and stones, kids...

I have to pass on my disappointment with the first issue of your magazine. In fact, it has made me angry ... It's yuppie bullshit.

Gary Chapman

May/June 1993

I hated the cover on my new Wired magazine so much I tore it off and threw it in the trash.

dteeter@aol.com

August 1994

I don't know whether to congratulate you for your courage or cancel my subscription for presenting such one-sided drivel.

Charles Lewis

November 1995

As fiction goes, Ed Regis' article on anti-environmental crusader Julian L. Simon was a work of art.

Tim Andrews

May 1997

"101 Ways to Save the Internet" had a few good ones and a whole lot of crap.

Andy Harrison

March 2004

Prince is geekier than William Gibson? The unhackable computer in Hackers was named after Gibson, for Pete's sake! Ever seen an unhackable computer named after Prince?

Peter Aaron

October 2004

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