Claim

The WELL DEVELOPED_BY Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand created and operated a BBS called the WELL, meaning Whole Earth Electronic Link.

Episode
EP 169 — MoD
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“He spun up his own BBS called the WELL, which stood for Whole Earth Electronic Link.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 7984–8068

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:53:06.962884+00:00

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