Someone's fishing for an excuse to up the TF monthly fee, methinks.....

What IS the price of Fark in Heineken, Drew?

Hey I remember the Well...I was probably searching for porn.

Hehe, I said probably, like I wasn't really sure.

Wow, the WELL is still around?  Sheesh, I'm old.

Chariset: Heineken

Same as in Chicago.

I can't say I blame them. There was a good 10 year stretch where Salon was one of the more interesting and well-written newsmagazines on the Webbernets. No longer. I've stopped going, and I'll let my subscription lapse.

Jesus, I had an account on The Well *YEARS* ago. I wonder if its still active?

They have the internet on computers now!

Reading about "literate" types online as members of a forum that is 27 years old makes me wonder if any of them have ever read or written anything that didn't take place in space, in an alternate universe or involve dragons.

I do miss the Whole Earth Review. It used to be a good place to go to find out what would be in the news during the following year. Back in 1991 they had articles about this thing called the Internet...students at universities knew about it but there was next to no access to the Net outside academia and defense. I even spent an obscene amount of money accessing the WELL for a month back in 1993 -- this was when online conversations were dominated by the hackers and high-schoolers who dominated the local BBS scene -- but $90/month after phone bills was a trifle steep.

Then I found GEnie ($20/month, 20 hours, GEnie forums), and then Delphi (access to Usenet and Gopher). Finally, honest-to-goodness Internet providers set up shop -- seven of them!

Yamaneko2: I do miss the Whole Earth Review. It used to be a good place to go to find out what would be in the news during the following year. Back in 1991 they had articles about this thing called the Internet...students at universities knew about it but there was next to no access to the Net outside academia and defense. The Whole Earth Review set up the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link -- it cost an obscene amount of money to accessing the WELL from the Midwest in 1993 but the level of conversation was higher than in the local BBS community.

Then I found GEnie ($20/month, 20 hours, GEnie forums), and then Delphi (access to Usenet and Gopher). Finally, honest-to-goodness Internet providers set up shop -- seven of them!

The Internet probably helped kill off the Whole Earth Review, with able assistance from the schisms, internal politics and deliberate financial precarity of WER probably helped. It's now much easier to access information that is outside the mainstream yet useful.