I recall M2K as more art-mag/future-style than substance, whereas (earlier) Wired more fully explored ideas with feet on the ground. Those curious can see https://www.mondo2000.com/archive/ + https://archive.org/details/mondohistory

I always thought it was the opposite. M2K had vision and some awareness of history and irony. (Albeit pickled by pharmaceuticals.)

Wired was mostly just a hype factory, and often comedically lacking self-awareness.

IIRC ~Y2K+ Wired's content tanked hard.

Huh, do you know anything about that "history project" on Internet Archive? I could scan all my old issues, but I imagine if they wanted that they'd already have them, they can't be that rare (and are of course still under copyright)...

OMNI ftw.