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On the epic saga of The Well...

Posted March 15, 2000 2:18 PM.

Any regulars to barbelith are familiar with the nexus - the anti-establishment post-counter-sub-cultural discussion forum. Recently there has been rather more in the way of conflict and flame-wars than normal - so much in fact that I have been sent a really interesting article from Wired about The Epic Saga of The Well (May 1997). The well was one of the first and most significant online communities, and it was - at times - wracked with conflict and crisis.

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