It's almost impossible to talk about The Dead and not talk about LSD.
Owsley (wall of sound engineer) was one of the original major LSD manufactures... and a dead show was always where you went to score ACID if you lived on the east coast. This remained true well into the 90's.
I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD.
The Dead, Bill graham, hells angles, peoples temple, Patty Hearst.... There is a continuum of culture that spills out of San Francisco to this very day.
> I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD.
What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff is exactly that. A dive into how psychedelic counterculture made its mark on folks at Stanford, folks at XEROX PARC, Doug Engelbart, Jim Fadiman, Steve Jobs, etc. Not the most cohesive narrative but fascinating stories
In a little surfing, I've turned up https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/FyeO9... but not a picture from a little later that I know existed in hardcopy (probably from shortly after 29.12.1970?) of Dr. Leary (in the snow?) at a ski station, celebrating the refusal of the request for his extradition.
Owsley (wall of sound engineer) was one of the original major LSD manufactures... and a dead show was always where you went to score ACID if you lived on the east coast. This remained true well into the 90's.
I'm going to guess that all of those early internet pioneers that you mentioned also have fond stories of LSD.
The Dead, Bill graham, hells angles, peoples temple, Patty Hearst.... There is a continuum of culture that spills out of San Francisco to this very day.