The Hackers' Conference had been his idea. Kelly recalled the original design goals that the WELL's founders had in mind when they opened for business in 1985.

 The design goals were:
 
1) That it be free. This was a goal, not a commitment. We knew it wouldn't be exactly free but it should be as free (cheap) as we could make it. . . .
 
2) It should be profit making . . . After much hard, low-paid work by Matthew and Cliff, this is happening. The WELL is at least one of the few operating large systems going that has a future.
 
3)  It would be an open-ended universe . . .
 
4)  It would be self-governing . . .
 
5)  It would be a self-designing experiment. . . . The early users were to design the system for later users. The usage of the system would co-evolve with the system as it was built. . . .
 
6)  It would be a community, one that reflected the nature of Whole Earth publications. I think that worked out fine.
 
7)  Business users would be its meat and potatoes. Wrong. . . .

People who were looking for a grand collective project in cyberspace flocked to the WELL.

List of Public Conferences on the WELL : 
ARTS AND LETTERS ,RECREATION ,ENTERTAINMENT ,EDUCATION AND PLANNING ,GRATEFUL DEAD ,THE WELL ITSELF ,SOME POPULAR PRIVATE CONFERENCES ON THE WELL ,BODY - MIND - HEALTH ,ARTS, RECREATION ,COMPUTERS, COMMUNICATIONS , etc.

WELL can help us to surf the internet and find very useful information.
 
 

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