Reminds me of these guys, except 15 years later: http://www.well.com/ http://www.well.com/ Obligatory wikipedia background: "WELL membership is available to a

Reminds me of these guys, except 15 years later: http://www.well.com/ http://www.well.com/ Obligatory wikipedia background: "WELL membership is available to almost anyone, but requires a paid subscription and use of one's real name." "The WELL was frequently mentioned in the media in the 1980s and 1990s, probably disproportionately to the number of users it had relative to other online systems. [...] This early visibility was largely the result of the early policy of providing free — comped — accounts for interesting journalists and other select members of the media. As a result, for many journalists it was their first experience of online systems and, later, the Internet, even though other systems existed." Not much happened with them, either.