Why Jann Wenner Let WIRED Start the Rolling Stone of Tech

Everyone agrees that sabotage killed the Nord Stream pipeline. But no one knows who did it. The first WIRED story ran in Rolling Stone in 1972, 20 years before the magazine launched. "Ready or not, computers are coming to the people," it began. The writer was Stewart Brand, and a young Annie Leibovitz captured images of Stanford AI hackers (the vernacular then was "computer bums") playing what some consider the first video game, Spacewar.