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This really makes me nostalgic.

I miss the days when Wired actually had decent content.

Well, journalism was also a good middle-class job back then. Magazines don't pay like they used to. Like upfront budgets to write a high-quality long piece.

Reading Hunter S Thompsons letters from the 60s as a freelance journalist you can tell he was able to spend time writing quality articles, with the odd hack job thrown in for extra cash. I highly doubt there are many full-time journos left like that.

> by Neal Stephenson

Well ok then

'Nuff said.

Nicer link for mobile reading:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

Nice read, thank you. See also Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061994952/

I had never read this. Amazing article. Thank you.