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Couldn't find this on Internet Archive but if you set your user agent to something that looks like google's crawler you can get past the paywall. It's easy on Safari if you already have the Develop menu enabled.

Develop > User Agent > Other...

Then use:

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36

Note that this works for most paywalls, not just Wired.


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