Cyber-Communities

Community is a balance of content and conversation.

-- Howard Rheingold

 

Virtual Community Defined

A virtual community is an online "place" where people communicate with other people on a grassroots, many-to-many basis. Several forms of "community" have existed for years: ckhat, MUDS (Multi User Dimensions), BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems), usenet, listservs and several others work as sources of news and basic interaction between users. Yet with the innovation of the web, much of the original spirit of communication was lost. Instead of people communicating together in groups, they are on their own. "Surfing is lonely!" proclaims Haykin.

GO THERE!

Freenets	Virtual Communities	MUDs, MOOs, Mushes	3D Worlds
Austin Freenet MAIN WCIC Net Victor ia Freenet WWW List of Community Networks	Rheingold's Electric Minds Yahoo's Cyberculture Cafe Dartre Cafe de Paris   Haven's List of Chat Ultimate Chatlist	FAQ -- MUDs, MOOs, etc. MOOs , MUDs and other Virtual Hangouts MOOs, MUDs and MUSHES LambdaMOO: telnet to lambda.parc.xerox.com then select port: 8888	Chetro Ketl Great Kiva   Express VR for the Mac Hot VR Links   Project ScienceSpace, George Mason University   Shockzone Deep Forest   Tour of Seattle   VRLM Galleries and Worlds   Virtual Reality Testbed , movies   Virtual World Factory

READ ABOUT THEM!

Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier	Center for the Study of Online Community
Virtual Reality Modeling Language	Visit Southern California Panoramas

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