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Online community founded in 1985. Knees are a little creaky, but the conversation just keeps getting better. You can still find us at well.com
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The WELL @well.com · Dec 11
Hello. I'm an online community. I'll be turning 40 next year and tbh, I'm kind of freaking out about it.
Hey! The BBC has something to say about our history with Deadheads in the early online years. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
How the Grateful Dead built the internet
Before 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.
www.bbc.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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And today at 4 PT!
January 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Whoah, wait, I overslept. It's 2025? CRAP. Can anyone summarize what happened this month?
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What if I had all your sends from 1997?
December 18, 2024 at 4:24 AM
Is there a TUMS equivalent for aging online communities? I keep burping up boomers.
December 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet. He was a member of my internet home, The Well. He used a wand to type his work.

Why not his hands? He was in an iron lung. From 1955 til he died in 1999. Attended UC Berkeley in it.

Because: polio.

Fuck you, RFK Jr.

pic: Poetry Foundation
December 15, 2024 at 4:31 AM
I've had Deadheads in my belly for 38-39 years now.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1891
Week of December 16, 2024

Part 1 41:21
GD 6/28/85 Hershey Park PA
SPACE->
I NEED A MIRACLE->
MORNING DEW->
THROWING STONES->
NOT FADE AWAY

Part 2 14:09
GD 6/28/85 Hershey Park PA
KEEP YOUR DAY JOB
Bob Weir, Ace
BLACK THROATED WIND
GD, American Beauty
OPERATOR
December 15, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Snapshot of early menus in the picospan system, STILL IN USE in 2024! It's history! It's alive!
December 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Should I use ice or heat? A compression sleeve or a brace? My picospan clicks every time I bend it and it hurts when I go downstairs.
December 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Any other online communities who have already turned 40 have any words of advice?
December 11, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Hello. I'm an online community. I'll be turning 40 next year and tbh, I'm kind of freaking out about it.
December 11, 2024 at 7:54 PM