Electric Word was a bimonthly, English-language magazine published in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 between 1987 and 1990 that offered eclectic reporting on the translation industry, linguistic technology, and computer culture.
Its editor was Louis Rossetto

Louis Rossetto

Louis Rossetto is an American journalist and "radical libertarian." He is best known as the founder and former publisher of Wired magazine.- Early life and career :Rossetto was born and grew up on Long Island, New York....

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The magazine was launched under the title Language Technology by a translation company in Amsterdam, INK International.
It was later renamed Electric Word and sold to a small Dutch media company.
It was terminated in 1990 due to insufficient revenues.

Electric Word was one of the first magazines published using desktop publishing

Desktop publishing

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 software.
It featured avant-garde graphics by the Dutch graphic designer Max Kisman.

After the failure of Electric Word, Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe

Jane Metcalfe

Jane Metcalfe is the co-founder, with Louis Rossetto, and former president of Wired Ventures, creator and original publisher of Wired Magazine...

 moved to San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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 and established Wired Magazine.