Ephemera

13: The Life (and Deaths) of The WELL


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I couldn't have done this story without Fred Turner’s book “From Counterculture to Cyberculture”, or Katie Hafner’s extensive 1997 history in Wired magazine:

https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/

the WELL is a much much bigger story than I could possibly tell here. For all that I say in the episode, I think it was a really special place with a prescient idea about how to build bonds in an online community.

 

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EphemeraBy Stephanie Bee

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