Gallery: Welcome to the Verso WIRED (2019)
01The first iteration of Hotwired from 1994, meant to embrace the constraints of the web.
02Hotwired, 1995. There were no web tables then, so the sitemap was just spaced links.
03By late 1995, the site had added a "What's New" link that served as one of the very first blogs.
04By 1996, Hotwired had invented the banner ad, which you can see on the bottom of the page.
05The 1997 design placed the ads in a stationary frame, while new content scrolled by.
061998\. The design experimented with content that floated across the screen.
07After Lycos acquired Hotwired in 1999, it took on the structured layout of its corporate parent.
08Wired.com, 2005. It showcased a number of innovations, like CSS templates that changed daily.
09Lycos sold Hotwired in 2006. The site was turned into a search portal that garnered traffic from name recognition.
10In 2006, Condé Nast acquired Wired.com, uniting WIRED magazine with Wired News.
11The design of Wired.com, which remained relatively unchanged from 2007 until 2015.
122015\. After eight years, WIRED relaunched with a fully responsive design that uses state-of-the-art infrastructure.
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