Yup. Joined in the mid-1980's, shortly after it formed. Learned the old style of email addressing, which, IIRC, included the full route from the sending host to

Yup. Joined in the mid-1980's, shortly after it formed. Learned the old style of email addressing, which, IIRC, included the full route from the sending host to the receiving hosts. (Those were the days! Up hill, both ways! :) I've dropped out of touch with the Well since the early 90s, but in my time it was a fabulous community for discussion. A bonus, for those of us who lived in the Bay Area, was the occasional meetup. Nowadays, it happens all the time, but back then, the experience of meeting people for the first time face to face when you already had a very good idea of how they spoke and thought was both fun and a little eerie. It was all done via command line in their special conferencing system, written by Marcus Watts. Sweeper, an MS-DOS frontend, came in the late '80s, and was a great breakthrough. It dialed in and harvested new threads behind the scenes, then presented them on the PC in a windowed interface. One cause for me drifting away was the web interface, which I've never liked.