Writers, History and the ‘Net
I was fortunate to stumble into the internet a couple of years before Netscape launched (late 1994 I think) through the original online community, the Well. I was living in Sausalito on a boat, and the Well was within walking distance. It had a thriving community of writers, all sharing their experience, strength and hope online in text only. I got my first net job with Match.com sometime after their April 95 launch, and since I was running a DOS machine, Id never seen a web page with a graphic.
But as soon as I did, I got it the web was, and is, just another publishing medium.
Kevin Kelly, formerly with Whole Earth Catalog and the Well, now with Wired Magazine has written a delightful history of those wild times. I think he and I met briefly in the Well/WE offices on a dock in Sausalito. I dont know if I ever met Ted Turner who dreamt up hypertext, but I might have at Well parties.
What a wonderful world we have wrought with all thats wrong, theres an awfully lot thats right too.
Write well and often,
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2 opinions for Writers, History and the ‘Net
normen
Nov 17, 2006 at 2:45 pm
i like pecils there cool
Anne Wayman
Nov 17, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Ah, you’re a gamer… you speak my language better than I speak yours.
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