The WELL
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The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, normally shortened to The WELL or The Well, is a virtual community founded in 1985. It is one of the oldest continuously operating virtual communities. By 1993 it had
WELL users after a day spent working to re-plant a part of the roadside near the WELL office.
Howard Rheingold, front, and other members of The WELL at a "office party" on September 20, 1991
NASA Apollo 8 Dec 24 Earthrise
John Perry Barlow
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John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Fo
The WELL
…Dead resources said the WELL "is to Deadheads what AOL is to the average American online." The WELL was the forum through which Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, and Mitch Kapor, the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, first met. Barlow wrote that a visit from an FBI agent investigating…
Barlow in August 2012
Barlow with Nicholas Negroponte
Portrait of Barlow, 2009
Barlow dove hunting with a shotgun near Corpus Christi, Texas in 2014