The Well Nonfiction by Katie Hafner

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The WellNonfiction by Katie Hafner
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The Well Nonfiction by Katie Hafner

• Who is Katie Hafner?
• New York Times reporter, has been writing about
  technology since 1983.
• She has worked for Newsweek and Business Week,
  and has written for Esquire, Wired, The New York
  Times Magazine and The New Republic.
• She has published four books
• "Where Wizards Stay Up Late The Origins of the
  Internet" (with Matthew Lyon) (Simon Schuster,
  1996)
• "The House at the Bridge A Story of Modern
  Germany" (Scribner, 1995)
• "Cyberpunk Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer
  Frontier" (with John Markoff) (Simon Schuster,
  1991).
• The Well A Story of Love, Death Real Life
  In The Seminal Online Community

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The Well

• The Well - The Whole Earth Lectronic Link Born
  in 1985
• Online community
• "intelligent people with diverse interests who
  were sufficiently outgoing and extroverted that
  they would be naturals in the medium."
• A place where You own your own words
• her tale of The Well is nothing less than a
  creation myth. Woven into her account of
  visionary and not so visionary businessmen
  and women, commune refugees, and assorted
  pioneers of the electronic frontier is the story
  of a world being built, of archetypal figures and
  the conflicts they waged on a virtual
  battlefield, and of the triumphs and tragedies
  attending the incorporation of any new
  community.
• Tom Mandel, Maria, Tex and Fig, etc. Tom Mandel
  and Mark Ethan Smith were not fundamentally
  different from their real world archetypes, the
  way Mandel and Smith conducted themselves on The
  Well fulfilled a need, either personal or
  communal each became what they and The Well
  needed them to be. Even more to the point, both
  these examples indicate that in pioneering
  societies the community becomes a self-regulating
  entity.

Quotes taken from The Well and a Review by Tom
Janulewicz http//www.pifmagazine.com
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