Name adopted (from Reality Hackers; ran 1989–1998, Berkeley). Editors R.U. Sirius and (Alison Bailey Kennedy); Jude Milhon (St. Jude) as editor; art director Bart Nagel — a pioneer of Photoshop collage, gave the magazine its surrealist look. The definitive cyberculture magazine and the direct predecessor of Wired. Covered VR, smart drugs, cyberpunk, body modification, nanotech — anarchic, satirical, utopian and paranoid at once. (Sources: Wired retrospective, Wikipedia, anarchivism.org, rip.so.)

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