List of virtual communities

List of virtual communities

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about virtual communities.

Benchmark virtual communities

* Usenet, one of the original decentralized, distributed discussion group architectures.
* BBS: The WELL, GEnie, The Meta Network
* Academic: EIES, USENET
* Blog: LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, Blogger
* Webcomic: UserFriendly, "Penny Arcade", "Sluggy Freelance", "Ctrl+Alt+Del"
* Virtual world/city: LucasFilm's Habitat, Second Life, Millsberry, "Red Light Center", IMVU
* IM: ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM
* IRC: IRCNet, Freenode, EFNet, Quakenet
* MMORPG: "EverQuest", "Final Fantasy XI", "RuneScape", "World of Warcraft"
* MOO: LambdaMOO
* Mososo: Dodgeball, Meetro
* MUD/MUSH: TinyMUD
* P2P: Kazaa, Morpheus, Napster, Limewire
* Wiki: Wikipedia, WikiWikiWeb, MeatballWiki, Wetpaint, PBWiki
* WWW: eBay, GeoCities, Slashdot, Digg
* Consumers: eBay, Amazon.com

Additional virtual community listings

Discussion boards

* Dead Runners Society
* GameFAQs
* Something Awful
* Fark
* 2channel
* The Talk
* Forumosa
* Zombie Squad
* IGN
* TOTSE
* 4chan

ocial networking

:"See article: List of social networking websites"

Art communities

* Albino Blacksheep
* DeviantArt
* Elfwood
* Newgrounds

MUD, MUSH, MOO

* GemStone
* ifMUD
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Ethnicity-based communities

* Fillos de Galicia
* MIT BBS

Other types

* bianca.com
* Del.icio.us (social bookmarking)
* vMix (online video sharing community)
* GameTZ.com (an online game, music, movie, and book trading community)
* CouchSurfing (free accommodation world wide through hospitality exchange)
* Hospitality Club (free accommodation world wide through hospitality exchange)
* Meetup (an online service designed to facilitate real-world meetings of people involved in various virtual communities)
* Meetro (local focused communities)
* Stumbleupon (web surfing)
* YTMND (Picture, Sound, Text)
* Group blogs
* TakingITGlobal (Youth - social networking for social good)

ee also

*Virtual community
*Support group


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