[1]This group was particuarly instrumental in forming the popular system The Well, based in southern California. The Well, which was originally a project of the Whole Earth Catalog publishers, attracts a clientele that clearly fits the "counterculture" label. Also significant in this trend is the growing political power in the CMC arena of people like John Perry Barlow (lyricist for the Grateful Dead) and Howard Rheingold(editor of the Whole Earth Review).

[2]As new printed guides to using CMC systems such as the Internet are developed, they are increasingly including sections on "netiquette," or normative behavior (Angell & Heslop, 1994; Dern, 1993). This in and of itself may well signify a cultural shift taking place in the context of CMC; it will certainly require additional analysis as part of this project.