Gallery: How We Moved 34,000 WIRED Pages to One Site in 9 Hours

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    00-1994

    The first iteration of Hotwired from 1994, meant to embrace the constraints of the web.
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    01-1995-early

    Hotwired, 1995. There were no web tables then, so the sitemap was just spaced links.
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    02-1995-late

    By late 1995, the site had added a "What's New" link that served as one of the very first blogs.
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    03-1996

    By 1996, Hotwired had invented the banner ad, which you can see on the bottom of the page.
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    04-1997

    The 1997 design placed the ads in a stationary frame, while new content scrolled by.
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    05-1998

    1998\. The design experimented with content that floated across the screen.
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    06-1999

    After Lycos acquired Hotwired in 1999, it took on the structured layout of its corporate parent.
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    Wired.com, 2005. It showcased a number of innovations, like CSS templates that changed daily.
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    07-2006

    Lycos sold Hotwired in 2006. The site was turned into a search portal that garnered traffic from name recognition.
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    09-2007-aug

    In 2006, Condé Nast acquired Wired.com, uniting WIRED magazine with Wired News.
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    10-today

    The design of Wired.com, which remained relatively unchanged from 2007 until 2015.
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    11-redesign

    2015\. After eight years, WIRED relaunched with a fully responsive design that uses state-of-the-art infrastructure.
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