Galleries (live)

  • Genesis artifacts: the founding documents Built
    The earliest landmark records of the Grateful Dead on Usenet, shown verbatim - the first post, the identity-forming threads, the first trip report, the creation poll and charter, and the newcomer primer. Curated from the Usenet corpus holding.
  • The CMU ~gdead early-web hub Built
    The harvested 1990s fan-maintained community hub - the FAQ snapshot, the taping guide, the hub index, and the McNally interview. Curated from the CMU-hub holding.
  • Recovered community surfaces Built
    The curated Deadhead community mini-sites from the topology sweep - the Berkeley nemesis gopher in both its held crawls, the WELL Art/grateful_dead tree, and the DEADLIT conference. The underlying community-surfaces holding also carries the quux.org A-News mirrors and the well.sf / gdead.berkeley / uwp topology markers, held for provenance honesty rather than curated here as wall pieces. Curated from the community-surfaces holding.

Statistics

  • Statistical exhibits Built
    The suite of corpus-volume charts - the shape of the community's whole life told in data, most-representative shares over raw counts.
    Plan: Exhibit 2
  • Threads per year (on/off-topic) Built
    A stacked bar chart of threads per year, split on-topic vs off-topic - the community's volume arc from genesis to silence.
    Plan: Exhibit 2a
  • Topic mix over time Built
    A year-by-year stacked chart of topic composition - how the conversation's subject mix shifted across the eras.
    Plan: Exhibit 2b
  • Participation curve Built
    The count of unique posters per year - the growth and decline of the community's population.
    Plan: Exhibit 2c
  • Thread-size distribution Built
    A histogram of live-window post counts per thread - how big the conversations got.
    Plan: Exhibit 2d
  • The Jerry spike (1995) Planned
    A daily zoom around Jerry Garcia's death on August 9, 1995 - the single largest volume event in the record. Deferred: the loaded corpus begins in 2003, so it carries no summer-1995 posts to chart.
    Plan: Exhibit 2e
  • Channels over time Built
    The net.* to rec.* migration - the Great Renaming seen through which channel the messages came from, year by year.
    Plan: Exhibit 2f
  • Decline curve Built
    Monthly active threads across the final era - the long tail into silence.
    Plan: Exhibit 2g
  • Scene sentiment over time Built
    The decline-vs-affirm directional prefilter by year, with the verbatim 1986 Diamond/Lefkowitz pairing - the community arguing about its own health. A structural prefilter only, never a computed score.
    Plan: Exhibit 2h

People

  • The founding voices: pioneers who endured Built
    The identity-resolved trace of the founders who bridged net.gdead / net.music.gdead into rec.music.gdead - eleven pioneers, one of them spanning twenty-six years. A derived view over the Usenet corpus holding.
  • Top contributors Built
    All-time, by-year, and by-topic leaderboards of the corpus's most prolific voices, with a profile page for the top posters - resolved across address churn.
    Plan: Exhibit 3

Narrative & timeline

  • Formation history timeline Built
    A public genesis timeline with editorial framing - the story the genesis-artifacts gallery tells, laid out as a narrative arc.
    Plan: Exhibit 4
  • FAQ revision history Planned
    The diachronic FAQ timeline - a revision viewer and diff viewer tracking how each answer changed release to release.
    Plan: Exhibit 5
  • A Long Strange Click: the series Built
    The editorial series hub - exhibit callouts and backlinks weaving the narrative articles into the data exhibits and back.
    Plan: Exhibit 7
  • Genesis-to-silence timeline Built
    A single-page scroll through the community's full arc - from the 1982 A-News genesis to the last recorded threads of the decline era.
    Plan: Exhibit 8e

Topic pages

  • Topic pages Built
    Per-topic overview pages - each corpus topic gets a landing that gathers its arc, its top threads, and its most-associated contributors.
    Plan: Exhibit 6
  • Topic: Show testimony Planned
    Threads carrying a date and a venue or song cue - the firsthand 'I was there' record.
    Plan: Exhibit 6 (showTalk)
  • Topic: Taping & lineage Planned
    Taping etiquette, deck lineage, and taper-section culture - the craft knowledge of the recording spine.
    Plan: Exhibit 6 (taping)
  • Topic: Adjacent-acts music Planned
    Non-GD music discussion within the community - the wider listening the group carried.
    Plan: Exhibit 6 (adjacentMusic)
  • Topic: Politics Planned
    The off-topic political threads - part of the community's record even when off the music.
    Plan: Exhibit 6 (politics)
  • Topic: Flames & insults Planned
    The flame wars and killfile drama - the friction of a long-lived community.
    Plan: Exhibit 6 (flames)
  • Topic: 'Deadhead' etymology Planned
    The OED-etymology post tracing the word 'Deadhead' - a showcase topic that also feeds the glossary.
    Plan: deadhead.txt showcase
  • Topic: Community self-documentation Planned
    The 1993 crowdsourced useless-deadstats show/song statistics - the community documenting itself as a cultural artifact.
    Plan: useless-deadstats showcase

Discovery & curation

  • Community-reaction rankings Built
    A derived analytic product over the corpus: the reply-driven community-reaction classifier ranks every post by the emotional vocabulary its replies drew - the room grading the post. Seven axes, ranked to JSONL on disk. This is meta about the corpus, not a raw possession.
  • Top mood posts (community reactions) Built
    The rankings-and-counts public face of the reaction-rankings dataset - the top-scored posts per reaction axis, the community grading its own posts, one wall per axis. Body-free by construction: no post excerpt or reply body is published (PQ3), only the subject headers, raw handles, reply-reaction counts, and content tags.
    Plan: Exhibit 8g
  • This Day in rec.music.gdead Built
    On-this-date thread discovery - what the community was talking about on today's date across the years.
    Plan: Exhibit 8a
  • Great Conversations Hall Planned
    A hand-curated gallery of the community's best conversations as public-safe thread summaries - the museum's greatest-hits, not the warehouse.
    Plan: Exhibit 8b
  • Show cross-exhibit Planned
    'What rec.music.gdead said about this show' - the period discussion surfaced on the LSC show detail pages.
    Plan: Exhibit 8c
  • Glossary & acronym exhibit Built
    The FAQ-sourced community vocabulary - the acronyms and in-group terms that oriented every newcomer.
    Plan: Exhibit 8d
  • Guided tours Built
    Docent-led paths through the other exhibits - editorial orderings that thread the built galleries, stats, and narrative acts into a start-here walk.
    Plan: Exhibit 8f

Historical wings

  • Canonical Setlist Archive Built
    The browsable CMU dead-sets setlist tree (1972-1995), presented with full provenance framing - the community's own canonical setlist record, cited, never presented as LSC-original. The 1993 useless-deadstats period document is cited alongside it.
    Plan: Exhibit 9
  • Pre-Web Deadhead Net Built
    The parsed dead-bbs.txt BBS directory (September 1995) plus the FidoNet nodelist lifespan timeline - the Deadhead net before the web. Phone numbers are dead historical artifacts; four boards are datable in the FidoNet nodelist history, and no DBN echomail survives.
    Plan: Exhibit 10
  • Recovered Community Surfaces (public wing) Planned
    The public gallery of the topology-sweep artifacts - DEADLIT, the Berkeley nemesis gopher, and the WELL Art/grateful_dead tree - now that the captures are held on disk.
    Plan: Exhibit 11

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