Wired is a monthly American technology magazine published by Conde Nast.

Wired was founded in 1993 by a group, led by Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, that became known as Wired Ventures. In 1998, Rossetto and Metcalfe lost control of the magazine to a group of investors who sold it to Conde Nast.

In 1994, Wired launched HotWired, the first commercial web magazine, which eventually was renamed Wired News. Wired News was sold to the search engine Lycos in 1998, shortly after the magazine was purchased by Conde Nast. For eight years, Wired News was owned by a different company from Wired, despite being the magazine’s online presence. In 2006, Conde Nast bought Wired News, though the magazine and its website remain separate entities.

While Wired.com had languished over its last few years under Lycos, its traffic rose quickly under Conde Nast. The magazine’s circulation has steadily increased over the past decade, though its ad pages declined sharply in early 2009. They had flattened by 2012, while digital advertising revenue equaled print for the first time. In 2013, it launched Amplifi, a unit devoted to native advertising.

Wired Digital also runs the social news website Reddit — bought by Conde Nast in 2006 — and the popular tech blog Ars Technica, a 2008 Conde Nast purchase. Wired’s U.K. division also runs a consulting division.