Recording the Grateful Dead: The Culture of Tapers
The overlap between early nerd culture and The Grateful Dead was very significant.<p>Taping and sharing culture and its benefits were very apparent in many net forums.<p>As were democratisation of the new tools, public terminals with BBS access and the Deadheads community spirit exemplified on Usenet and Arpanet.<p>Look no further than John Perry Barlow, EFF co-founder and his Manifesto of Cyberspace - he was a Grateful Dead Lyricist !<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;its-been-20-years-since-this-man-declared-cyberspace-independence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;its-been-20-years-since-this-m...</a><p>Barlow&#x27;s paradigm seems cheeky without awareness of 
the Net&#x27;s public roots, how it came up through BBS and Fidonet  culture, is forgotten by those who only saw the view of the Net as a gift from the ivory towers of academia and the military rather than bedroom z80 &amp; 6502 modem culture.<p>q.v. Fidonet BBS documentary<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU</a>