IT WAS late, 1985, before John Perry Barlow got into computers. He'd bought a word processor to keep things efficient as he ran the family ranch, and because he wanted a machine that would print out his lyrics for the Grateful Dead really nicely on paper. (Two jobs, two hats.) But then he procured a Macintosh and a modem, the first ever seen in Sublette County, Wyoming, and discovered that, through this little blinking box and the tendril of a lan-dline, he could join an extraordinary community. In the well (for Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), one of the first virtual bulletin boards, he moved like a cave fish, blindly, among entities without bodies. They were things of words alone, free-floating wisps of thought, in a perpetual town meeting of unleashed opinions. Everything was possible, and almost everything allowed, in a suddenly limitless world. As he wrote for the Grateful Dead in "Cassidy", his most famous song, he was "a child of boundless seas".
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机译：1985年末，约翰·佩里·巴洛（John Perry Barlow）涉足计算机领域。他在经营家族牧场时购买了文字处理程序，以保持工作效率，并且因为他想要一台能够在纸上非常好地打印出Grateful Dead歌词的机器。 （两份工作，两顶帽子。）但随后，他购买了一台Macintosh和调制解调器，这是怀俄明州Sublette县有史以来第一次见到的调制解调器，他发现，通过这个小小的闪烁的盒子和一条lan-dline的卷须，他可以加入非凡的社区。在第一个虚拟公告板之一的井中（全地球电子链接），他像洞中的鱼一样盲目地在没有尸体的实体之间移动。在永恒的城镇聚会中，他们只是言语上的东西，自由浮动的思想wi绕。在一个无穷无尽的世界中，一切皆有可能，几乎一切都允许。正如他最著名的歌曲《卡西迪》（Cassidy）中的《感恩的死者》（Grateful Dead）所写，他是“无边无际的孩子”。
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