Articles About The WELL

The WELL community has developed over almost four decades as we have laughed, cried, argued  over almost four decades of changes, check out the following articles:

• Jon Lebkowsky, “Discovering the Early Online Communities and Cultures” interview in Nexus, August, 2024. PDF in English and Chinese

• Bernhard Pörksen, “Social Networks”, Die ZEIT Online, 30 March 2021. ‘Alle mit allen verbinden‘ ‘Connect everyone with everyone‘.

• Gail Ann WIlliams, “Lessons from the WELL + Making a World Where the Sun Rises the Next Morning”, Community Signal Podcast, 6 March 2017
• Molly Talbert, “The WELL, Where Online Community Began,” HigherLogic.com, 4 February 2016
• Howard Rheingold, “What The WELL’s Rise and Fall Tells Us About Online Community,” The Atlantic, 6 July 2012
• Cory Doctorow, “WELL Users Pledge More Than $100K to Community Buyout,” BoingBoing.net, 3 July 2012
• Nick Wingfield, “The WELL, a Pioneering Online Community, Is for Sale Again,” NYTimes.com, 29 June 2012
• Wendy Grossman, “You Own Your Own 20th Anniversary,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 8 April 2005
• “A Sense of WELL Being,” Salon.com, 31 March 2000
• Katie Hafner, “The Epic Saga of The WELL,” WIRED Magazine, May 1997
• Laurie and Steve Foster, “A New Dimension In Teleconferencing, THE WELL”  MicroTimes Magazine, July 1985,Volume 2, Number 7, (an early mention of The Well, preserved by the Internet Archive )

Also, Chapter One of Howard Rheingold’s book ‘The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electric Frontier’ is all about The WELL.