Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link

Commentary: Martin and McNally facing long odds with tax proposal
Colorado Springs Business Journal; 9/4/2009; 1014 words; ...Wonder Woman and Cat Woman? Or will they crash to earth, brought down by our very own cackling and coldly...There was no Internet as such -- just the Well (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, for those unfamiliar with ancient history) and...

Internet technology and challenges of virtual communities.
International Journal of Business Research; 7/1/2007; 13026 words; ...play games, flirt, create a little art, and a lot of idle talk." Rheingold's experience with the WELL (Whole Earth Lectronic Link) a computer conferencing system that enabled people around the world to carry on public conversions and to exchange...

How the Internet got its groove.(From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism)(Book review)
Issues in Science and Technology; 6/22/2007; 2078 words; ...institutions and on computers. He links Norbert Weiner's systems theory...evokes that idea in describing the Whole Earth Catalog, Brand's idiosyncratic...discussion of computers, the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (The WELL, the online meeting...

Cold war meets counterculture: how hippie hero Stewart Brand created our wired world.(From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism)(Book review)
Reason; 1/1/2007; 1174 words; ...well get good at it." His Whole Earth background might make it easy to...technology as an interconnected "whole system" that can be modeled...computer bulletin board, The WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link). The ideas inherent in those...

Why anonymity exists and works on newspapers' Web sites: 'if we require real names in print, shouldn't we do the same thing online?'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)
Nieman Reports; 12/22/2006; 2055 words; ...Kremvax," sent long before the network extended into the Soviet Union. Early public online forums, such as the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL) and many CompuServe interest groups, also were dominated by real identities. The first newspaper...