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... The network known as TheWell had the first account of a death online that I encountered. It is the wealth of material published on TheWell, including by its own postgraduate and tech-savvy members, that helped it become well known as the first 'virtual community' 30 (Lewis, 1994;Ryan, 2010;Hafner, 1997). When TheWell opened in 1985, home computer ownership was considered to be limited, with systems that primarily operated with black and white displays and no internal hard drives (Ryan, 2010;Hafner, 1997 Although the Macintosh had been released a year earlier, and the Graphic User Interface had signalled a huge shift in accessibility, TheWell was deliberately run using PicoSpan, ...
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