List of virtual communities: Difference between revisions

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bianca.com
Scratch (an educational programming website by MIT)
GameTZ.com (an online game, music, movie, and book trading community)
CouchSurfing (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange)
Hospitality Club (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange)
Warm Showers (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange for bicycle travelers)
Meetup (an online service designed to facilitate real-world meetings of people involved in various virtual communities)
Meetro (local focused communities)
StumbleUpon (web surfing)
Woozworld (virtual gaming community for youth)
YTMND (Picture, Sound, Text)
Group blogs
TakingITGlobal (Youth - social networking for social good)
CrossFit (a fitness program where users post their scores and comments on daily workouts)
DXY.cn (an online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities)

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 * '''[[Usenet]]''', one of the original decentralized, distributed discussion group architectures.
-* '''[[Bulletin board system|BBS]]''': [[WELL (virtual community)|The WELL]], [[GEnie]], [[The Meta Network]]
+* '''[[Bulletin board system|BBS]]''': [[WELL (virtual community)|The WELL]], [[GEnie]], The Meta Network
 * '''Academic''': [[History of virtual learning environments#1974|EIES]], [[Usenet]]
-* '''[[Blog]]''': [[LiveJournal]], [[Xanga]], [[MySpace]], [[Facebook]], [[WordPress]], [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]], [[TheStudentRoom]], [[Tagged (website)|Tagged]]
+* '''[[Webcomic]]''': [[UserFriendly]], ''[[Penny Arcade (webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
+* '''[[Virtual world|Virtual world/city]]''': [[Habitat (video game)|LucasFilm's Habitat]], [[Second Life]], [[Millsberry]], ''[[Red Light Center]]'', [[IMVU]], [[Neopets]], [[Roblox]]
-* '''[[Webcomic]]''': [[UserFriendly]], ''[[Penny Arcade (webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'',
+* '''[[Instant messaging|IM]]''': [[ICQ]], [[Yahoo! Messenger]], [[Windows Live Messenger]], [[AOL Instant Messenger|AIM]], [[Facebook Messenger]], [[WhatsApp]], [[Kik Messenger]], [[WeChat]], [[Viber]], [[Discord]], [[Skype]], [[iMessage]], [[KakaoTalk]], [[Line (software)|Line]], [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]]
-* '''[[Virtual world|Virtual world/city]]''': [[Habitat (video game)|LucasFilm's Habitat]], [[Second Life]], [[Millsberry]], ''[[Red Light Center]]'', [[IMVU]], [[Neopets]]
-* '''[[Instant messaging|IM]]''': [[ICQ]], [[Yahoo! Messenger]], [[Windows Live Messenger]], [[AOL Instant Messenger|AIM]]
 * '''[[Internet Relay Chat]] (IRC)''': [[IRC network]]s
-* '''[[MMORPG]]''': ''[[EverQuest]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', ''[[RuneScape]]'', ''[[World of Warcraft]]''
+* '''[[MMORPG]]''': ''[[EverQuest]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', ''[[RuneScape]]'', ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', [[Final Fantasy XIV]], [[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]
 * '''[[MOO]]''': [[LambdaMOO]]
-* '''[[Mososo]]''': [[Dodgeball]], [[Meetro]]
+* '''[[Mososo]]''': [[Dodgeball]], [[Meetro]], [[Foursquare City Guide|Foursquare]]
-* '''[[MUD]]'''/'''[[MUSH]]''': [[TinyMUD]]
+* '''[[Multi-user dungeon|MUD]]'''/'''[[MUSH]]''': [[TinyMUD]]
-* '''[[P2P file sharing|P2P]]''': [[Kazaa]], [[Morpheus (computer program)|Morpheus]], [[Napster]], [[Limewire]]
+* '''[[P2P file sharing|P2P]]''': [[Kazaa]], [[Morpheus (file-sharing software)|Morpheus]], [[Napster]], [[Limewire]], [[BitTorrent]]
 * '''[[Wiki]]''': [[Wikipedia]], [[WikiWikiWeb]], [[MeatballWiki]], [[Wetpaint]], [[PBworks]], [[TV Tropes]]
-* '''[[WorldWideWeb|WWW]]''': [[eBay]], [[GeoCities]], [[Slashdot]], [[Digg]]
+* '''[[WorldWideWeb|WWW]]''': [[eBay]], [[Slashdot]], [[Digg]], [[Reddit]]
 * '''Consumers''': [[eBay]], [[Amazon.com]]
 * '''Software that enable online communities''': [[Ning (website)|Ning]]
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 * [[IGN]]
 * [[TOTSE]]
-* [https://wyconetz.wixsite.com/mysite Facto Network]
 ===Social networking===
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 ===MUD, MUSH, MOO===
+{{Main|List of MUDs}}
 * [[:Category:MUD games]]
-* [[:Category:MU* servers]]
 * [[:Category:MU* games]]
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+* [[1Point3Acres]]
 * [[Fillos de Galicia]]
+* [[Laneros]]
 * [[MIT BBS]]
 ===Online Teaching Covens===
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Latest revision as of 04:52, 19 December 2024

Benchmark virtual communities

Additional virtual community listings

Discussion boards

Social networking

Art communities

MUD, MUSH, MOO

Virtual world communities

Virtual reality communities

Ethnicity-based communities

Online Teaching Covens

Other types

See also