Wanderlust

The story of modern travel

NOV 1993

WANDERLUST HITS THE SHELVES

After scheming the idea on a flight to Ecuador, Lyn Hughes and Paul Morrison publish the first issue of Wanderlust, now the UK’s longest-running consumer travel magazine.

JAN 1994

THE ORIGINAL ’TRAVEL BLOG’

Facebook was ten years away when US journalist Jeff Greenwald posted a series of ‘live’ online travel pieces called ‘Big World’ on the now-defunct Global Network Navigator site. He even uploaded the first image from Kathmandu - it took 14 hours to send!

SUMMER 1994

E-TRAVEL LAUNCHED

The USA’s Southwest Airlines rolled out e-tickets for the first time in 1994. The following year, a

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