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.
rec.music.gdead FAQ, parts 1 and 2 of 2 Held on disk
A single captured snapshot of the two-part rec.music.gdead FAQ (parts 1 and 2 of 2), maintained by E. Nay, last updated March 29, 1994 in this capture.
- Date
- 1994-03-30T05:03:09Z
- Author
- bs810@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (E. Nay)
- Handle
- E. Nay
- Newsgroups
rec.music.gdead- Message-ID
<2nb16d$j02@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>- Significance
- The community FAQ that answered the recurring questions - the hotline numbers, mail-order tickets, the origin of the name, the Dancing Bears, what a Tape Tree is and how it works, Dead-Flames, and the acronym glossary. A single-snapshot capture of the living document that oriented every newcomer to the group.
Note: This surfaces one captured snapshot of the FAQ (its part-1 text). The FAQ was a living, frequently-revised document; the full diachronic FAQ revision-history exhibit - tracking how each answer changed release to release - is a separate future build, not this artifact.
Verbatim artifact Transcribed verbatim from the recovered source; nothing is paraphrased or reconstructed.
The verbatim text could not be loaded from the copied asset.
rec.music.gdead FAQ, part 2 of 2 Held on disk
The second half of the same single FAQ snapshot - the continuation of the answer set.
- Date
- 1994-03-30T05:03:09Z
- Author
- bs810@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (E. Nay)
- Handle
- E. Nay
- Newsgroups
rec.music.gdead- Significance
- Part 2 of the same captured FAQ snapshot, continuing the answer set. Shown verbatim alongside part 1.
Note: The same single-snapshot caveat as part 1: this is one capture of a living document, not its full revision timeline.
Verbatim artifact Transcribed verbatim from the recovered source; nothing is paraphrased or reconstructed.
The verbatim text could not be loaded from the copied asset.
The rec.music.gdead taping guide Held on disk
The community's assembled guide to taping Grateful Dead shows - the recorded knowledge of the taper section, captured as a single plain-text document.
- Date
- 1996-12-02T00:00:00Z
- Author
- The rec.music.gdead taper community
- Significance
- The community's own assembled guide to taping Grateful Dead shows - microphone technique, deck setup, the etiquette of the taper section, and the non-commercial trading ethic. The recorded craft knowledge of the tapers whose output became the recording spine LSC cross-references.
Verbatim artifact Transcribed verbatim from the recovered source; nothing is paraphrased or reconstructed.
The verbatim text could not be loaded from the copied asset.
The CMU ~gdead hub index Held on disk
The directory index of the CMU ~gdead hub itself - the front door listing every file, image, and subdirectory of the harvested community site.
- Date
- 1996-12-02T00:00:00Z
- Author
- www.cs.cmu.edu/~gdead
- Significance
- The front door of the hub: an Apache directory index listing every artifact of the site - the year-by-year setlist pages, the lyrics and setlist subdirectories, the taping guide, the interviews, and the image gallery of skeletons, roses, and Steal-Your-Face globes. The shape of a 1990s fan-maintained community site, preserved intact.
Raw capture: View the raw captured file
An Online Interview with Dennis McNally Held on disk
A live online 'auditorium' interview with the Grateful Dead's official publicist and biographer, captured from the AOL Grateful Dead Forum.
- Date
- 1995-09-19T00:00:00Z
- Author
- Geoff Gould (sweeney99@aol.com), AOL Grateful Dead Forum
- Significance
- A live online interview with Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's official publicist and biographer, conducted September 19, 1995 in an online 'auditorium' with as many as 700 people logged on at once, questions taken from the audience. An early-web capture of the band's own voice reaching the community directly.
Note: This is an HTML capture, linked as a raw file rather than rendered inline. The AOL capture carries the notice 'Copyright 1995 America Online, Inc.' the original file asks be retained whenever it is copied.
Raw capture: View the raw captured file
Draws on: The CMU ~gdead early-web hub