
46 The Lost French Web with Kevin Driscoll
Reimagining the Internet
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Is the Well the Best Documented System in the World?
The well is this baarea base network that appears be mostly occupied by tech journalists who go on to write books about the inornet. A lot of to days dead head resources, like data bases of show listings and track listing and knowledge about what tapes exist, were first being compiled on the well. The piece of the bolton board system story that i come back to time and again is the role of the sisop ike. This that'sthe system operator. It's really, really important figure in b b s history that's almost absent of all dominant platforms like facebook.
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