How the Grateful Dead Built the Internet

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Before the the internet took over the world, psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead were among the first – and most influential – forces at the dawn of online communication.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250618-how-the-grateful-dead-shaped...

Aws

((((Well)))))

There was a well guy who had a computer running 24/7 with so many cooking fans around it

PZ was my first innerweb foray 

LeSigh

I still have the Last Whole Earth Catalog I stole from th high school library. 

Could the timing of publishing this article have something to do with Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros are playing in London?

I just wondered.

I thought Al Gore invented the internet when Tipper was out fighting for censoring music.

I remember an article in the Wall Street Journal after the 89 quake in SF. They published the posts from people who were commenting on their experience in real time on this new platform called The Well. Just about every post they published had a dead related user name like Jack Straw. 

 

David Gans, a Bay Area musician, DJ and Deadhead...was interested in the idea of finding an online home for the thriving Grateful Dead community. The Well was a perfect fit. Alongside cofounders Bennett Falk and Mary Eisenhart, he spun up the Grateful Dead forum.

I didn't know that Mary Eisenhart was one of the cofounders of the Well's GD forum. Last time I checked, she was still one of the mods of the forum at dead.net.