Virtual communities

2channel (2ちゃんねる, pronounced "ni-channeru", 2ch for short) is the largest Internet forum in the world. With over 10 million visitors every day ( as of 2001), it is gaining significant influence in Japanese society, approaching that of traditional mass media such as television, radio, and magazines. ...more on Wikipedia about "2channel"

ADVFN or Advanced Financial Network is the formal name of a commercial company quoted on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AFN) ...more on Wikipedia about "ADVFN"

Audiogalaxy was a file sharing system located at http://www.audiogalaxy.com/ that indexed MP3 files. Founded by Michael Merhej and sporting a web-based search engine, always-on searching for requested files, auto-resume and low system impact, it quickly gained ground among file sharers abandoning Napster in 2001. Some observing the previous downfall of Napster via lawsuit were shocked at the design of Audiogalaxy, which was in some ways more centralized than Napster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Audiogalaxy"

Avidgamers ( ** ) is a popular and free community hosting system which hosts websites from a MySQL-backend with common features such as Forums, Messaging and Applications. The system was created by Norwegian Jon Valvatne in 2001. The site came to be when owner Jon Valvatne made a website for the Utopia clan 'Barduvian'. Later others enquired about having a similar site and thus the system was born. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avidgamers"

Baen's Bar is an online community created around Baen Books' message board (originally BBS). ...more on Wikipedia about "Baen's Bar"

BIOSCI is a set of electronic communication forum used by life scientists around the world. It includes the bionet USENET newsgroups and parallel e-mail lists. The BIOSCI services are free of charge. ...more on Wikipedia about "BIOSCI"

Dagbladet Blink is the largest online community in Norway with over 350 000 active members. (7.47% of the Norwegian population) ...more on Wikipedia about "Blink (community)"

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(Blogger.com) Blogger is a blog hosting service. It was created by Pyra Labs, which is now owned by Google. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blogger.com"

Che-lives is a web site dedicated to radical leftist ideas and discussion. The website hosts a live net radio station, a Che-Lives Ezine written by members of the forum, covering a whole range of leftist issues, and a discussion forum for the left. Originally started as a site dedicated to Che Guevara, it has grown into one of the largest communities of radical leftists on the internet, with more than 6000 members. This is down from 8800 people at one point, as a result of technical difficulties that led to corruption of board software and the loss of more than 1000 member accounts and the deletion of almost 4000 inactive accounts. The forum itself is now on a separate URL , as a result of a community decision to broaden its horizons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Che-Lives"

The name Children of Acid was coined on April 21 1998 (at 2:35 AM EST) to describe a group of people that formed in 1994 as a chatroom on IRC. The chatroom served as a portal for music lovers of Lords of Acid, Praga Khan, and MNO related projects. The channel on Undernet was #acid-trip, and AciD-HeAD was the eggdrop bot to keep control of the channel. In 1996 it was moved to a private network due to the steadily increasing volume, but the channel and bot names were kept the same. It wouldn't be for 2 more years that the group members of Lords of Acid would meet up with Victor 'Ven' Nolton and have PragaKhan.com designed. PragaKhan.com was launched on February 24 1998, after 5 months of work, and the chatroom started to increase in volume. The users who frequented the site were put on a webpage with their picture and some random information about each user. It was later decided, on April 21, that this chatroom of people would be hailed as the 'Children of Acid'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Children of Acid"

The term circuit rider, which has its roots in Methodist preaching, has more recently been applied to technology assistance providers who travel to small non-profit organizations in a particular sector to troubleshoot or support particular technology needs in those organizations. Another term for these people is eRider. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circuit rider (Technology)"

A crypto-society is an encrypted virtual community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crypto-society"

Davatar is the short form of dynamic avatar. A dynamic avatar is an avatar that can change its outlook corresponding to dynamic elements or environment settings. A Davatar is dynamically generated on the fly for each request. Thus, it looks differently every time when a Davatar is being retrieved, for example, on every page reloads. ...more on Wikipedia about "Davatar"

dcinside.com is a Korean website specializing in digital cameras and has 350,000 visitors with 22 million page views a day. Dcinside.com introduces and reviews new products and provides various services such as camera tutorials, galleries, online communities, group buying and photo development. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dcinside"

DeadJournal is a weblog site which allows Internet users to maintain an online journal, or "blog." ...more on Wikipedia about "DeadJournal"

deviantART is a popular online artistic community. It was first launched on August 6, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff and Matthew Stephens . Angelo Sotira is the current CEO of deviantART, Inc. ...more on Wikipedia about "DeviantART"

DragonRealms is a medieval fantasy MUD set in the world of Elanthia. It was developed from 1992-1995 and released in February of 1996. It was originally intended for the Ziff-Davis online service. When Ziff-Davis failed to create said service, DragonRealms was offered instead on GEnie and later AOL, Compuserve, and Prodigy. When AOL and other services went to a flat rate fee instead of hourly fees, DragonRealms was offered on the web on its own site ** and through Microsoft Gaming Zone. ...more on Wikipedia about "DragonRealms"

eBay Inc. ( ) manages an online auction and shopping website, where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide. ...more on Wikipedia about "EBay"

EFnet or Eris Free network (also written EFNet) is a major IRC network, with over 100,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network. ...more on Wikipedia about "EFnet"

Elfwood is a popular web-based art gallery devoted to original science fiction and fantasy art and writing. It was started 1 May 1996 by Thomas Abrahamsson . It is divided into three main galleries: ...more on Wikipedia about "Elfwood"

Ethan Zuckerman is a co-founder of Tripod and the founder of Geekcorps. He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. During his time at the Berkman Center, he has founded Global Voices Online in collaboration with Rebecca MacKinnon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ethan Zuckerman"

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EverQuest (EQ) is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) that was released on March 16 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost. It was developed by Verant Interactive (which had recently parted from 989 Studios) and published by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). SOE currently runs and distributes EverQuest. ...more on Wikipedia about "EverQuest"

Facebook, formerly known as thefacebook, is a social networking service for high school, college, and university communities, primarily in English-speaking countries. The site has some similarities to MySpace, but differs in account availability, user control of display content, real-world identity, and overall neatness of appearance. As of December 2005, it has the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites (at over six million US college student accounts created). ...more on Wikipedia about "Facebook (website)"

Fanart Central is an online art community which allows artists to exhibit their works, as well as discuss the works of other artists through comments and forums. Commonly abbreviated by its members as FAC, the site is designed to accommodate fanart; however, original art by its members is also welcome. Fanart Central currently has over 35,000 registered members and over 200,000 art submissions ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Fanart Central"

Fandom Wank is an online community located on the blogging site JournalFen . The stated theme of the community is "because we take "Fandom is Fucking Funny" one step too far." Fandom Wank is a large community, with more than three thousand members. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fandom Wank"

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