West Coast online community the Well marks 20 years with 4,000 subscribers

"Twenty years ago, two seminal Internet communities were born -- one on the East Coast, one on the West."

"The East Coast community, now known as America Online, has 22.4 million subscribers. The West Coast community, the Well, has just 4,000."

"Yet many credit the comparatively diminutive Well, which celebrated its 20th birthday Friday, with inspiring much of today's online interaction."