 This began with early engineers trading Grateful Dead set lists and discussing the setup of the band's concert speaker system, called the "Wall of Sound," on ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet.This led to tape trading over FTP, and the Internet Archive began to add Grateful Dead shows in 1995.. Online tape trading communities such as etree evolved into p2p networks trading shows through torrents.After the birth of the World Wide Web, many communities adopted the practices of Deadhead fandom online.