Bob Weir has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Bob Weir has died

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Post by davidwritesbugs » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 7:12 AM UTC

driggs wrote: post #13

Particularly relevant to HN is that Bobby's primary writing partner for decades was John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): https://www.eff.org/john-perry-barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you…

This always makes me laugh. Comically pretentious & naive. Like schoolboy poetry.

Re: Bob Weir has died

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Post by windowpains » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 8:11 AM UTC

davidwritesbugs wrote: post #21

driggs wrote: post #13

Particularly relevant to HN is that Bobby's primary writing partner for decades was John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): https://www.eff.org/john-perry-barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you…

This always makes me laugh. Comically pretentious & naive. Like schoolboy poetry.

The EFF, FOSS, Stallman, Barlow, so many things seem childish or naive now, but not back then. Maybe it’s just me. I wish I could go back.

Re: Bob Weir has died

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Post by toomuchtodo » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #10

derwiki wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And tons of free tunes on relisten.net!

archive.org has a ton as well

https://archive.org/details/gd1980-08-21.sbd.miller.99034.sb... is one I can recommend (Grateful Dead Live at Uptown Theatre on 1980-08-21)

Re: Bob Weir has died

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Post by adfm » Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 8:08 PM UTC

This is definitely sad news. From I remember, the early Internet seemed to be inhabited mostly by deadheads. When you think of open source, remember the music and the thousands who would tape and share the experience of Bobby playing with the band to millions.