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The Well was conceived during the Orwellian yr of 1984, yet rather than heralding Big Brother, it became a boundary-breaking ethnical technology that helped change our world. Though few glimpsed its potential, it quickly became indispensable to the advancement of the web as we know it today. Its makers were Larry Brilliant, a visionary software engineer and philanthropic doctor, and Stewart Brand, Sixties tale and originator of The Whole Earth Catalog. They thought a new kind of community, one whose people would meet in everyday space, as ideal communities always have, while also inhabiting a new kind of environment, the exclusive ether of a global that hadn't even yet been known as. By the finish of the 1980s, the pioneering community founded by Brilliant and Brand was bringing in thousands of early adopters, from former commune-dwellers to students to technologists to businesspeople to followers of the Grateful Dead, all participating in online conferences with other Well-beings (as they called themselves) on myriad issues. This amazing anecdotal background unfolds their account. It is filled up with memorable personalities and their early electronic postings, that happen to be quoted as they were originally sent, as it analyzes the countless reasons for the Well's famous success, from its origins less than 2 decades ago up for this day, including its recent purchase by salon.com.
