The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Sold To Its Members

New submitter nadaou sends this quote from the NY Times: "One of the earliest online communities, The WELL, has a new owner: its members. On Thursday evening, Salon Media Group, the previous owner of The WELL, said it had sold the community to the Well Group, a private investment group consisting of longtime members of the community, which was founded in 1985, long before the rise of the Web."

CIX - older and hopefully bigger

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In the UK we still have CIX which predates the well a little and hopefully has more than 2000 members but it's a shadow of it's former glory when it counted Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett amongst its regular users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIX/ [wikipedia.org]

Re:Oh no, the people owning themselves?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just so you know, the Divine Right of Kings doctrine is 180 degrees divergent from what both Christianity and Judaism teach. See the Books of Samuel as a reference. Here's the synopsis:

Israelites: We want a king.
God: No way. Kings screw everything up.
Israelites: We still want a king.
God: No way. Kings screw everything up.
Israelites: We still want a king.
God: OK. Here's your king. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Israelites: This king you sent us. He screwed everything up!
God: Oh noes! If only someone let you know ahead of time!