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Users of The Well buy The Well from Salon
- spidaman 14y agoAs a user of the WeLL from the 1990's, I'm glad to hear that the community that owns its own words will now own its own destiny.
- danielweber 14y agoThere's something ironic about one of the oldest and biggest BBS's only describing its acquisition via PDFs.
- gaius 14y agoCould have been worse; could have been Flash.
- wpietri 14y agoOr they could have required you to dial in via 300bps modem.
- tomjen3 14y agoThe first time I ever heard about the well was when I browsed it with gopher. That was 5 or so years ago. They seem to have turned the gopher servers of in '09. So PDF is properly the best they can do.
- whatshisface 14y agoI recall that this is what happened with the Blender Foundation. Perhaps something incredible will come of this?
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- fluxon 14y agoI'm glad the users now own the means of production. Long time coming. I was sad when they closed the modem pool round-robin number - I dialed it one day a few years ago just to reminisce, and it had been assigned to a real estate holding company.
- w1ntermute 14y agoAre there any HNers who are current users of the WeLL? I've read about it in books about 80s/90s internet culture, but it rarely comes up in online discussions. Maybe that's because a 2000 (or more? Has it decreased in population?) person community was impressive back then, but doesn't really have much significance now.