This paper discusses how one goes about finding a home on the Internet. While it is true that there is a huge variety of interesting places, the implied notion that everything in cyberspace is there for the asking- you merely make an internet connection you are automatically swept away to the Land of Oz- is simply not true.
CU-SeeMe - Realtime, Desktop, Videoconferencing
By Ming Chen
CU-SeeMe is an application that allows anyone with a computer and a connection to the Internet to participate in realtime, desktop videconferencing. It was developed at Cornell University and is available for free to any Mac or PC user. Users of CU-SeeMe can connect to reflectors, where they can chat with and see other users, thus forming a still new type of Virtual Community that is several steps beyond the standard chats.
Obsessed Like Me
By Kim Brody
My community involved chattiing about the daytime soap operas. We discussed current and upcoming plots and filled anyone in who missed a day, month, year, whatever. It's mostly women who live vicariously through these television characters. If you are into soaps, this page is for you.
Lights!Camera!Action!
By Robin Katz
Whether you want to be a star, work on a set or a production of a movie, or just chat about the latest flicks, the Entertainment-Theater room in Webchat Broadcasting Systems is the place for you. The focus of this real-time chat room is the entertainment industry-how to get involved in it professionally, and how it effects our individual lives.
Cyber Sobriety
By Jessica Seiden
If you have an alcoholic or substance abuse problem, no need to travel to an AA meeting, just get on the Internet and join AA Recovery! People are here to listen and help solve your problems using real-time chat in this virtual community.
An On-line Political Rumble
By Jeffrey Datz
The primary purpose of my community was to provide a conference for political junckies to discuss political issues. In other words, this site allowed people throughout the world the opportunity to express opinionated views in the realm of politics.
Life Within Geo-Cities
By Michele Engelhart
This community is a large collection of chat rooms that are named after different cities or places throughout the world. It offers these rooms as a space to meet people from all over to discuss just about anything one can imagine.
Intelligence on the Net
By Jonathan Freeman
The intelligence community is generally composed of professionals and watchdogs. This paper is an effort to examine the resources of both camps on the Internet in one place and to separate the credible resources from the paranoid government pessimists.
Friends
By Jennifer Katz
This very friendly chat room is extremely welcoming to newcomers. There is a wide range of members from all over the world who come together for a common purpose - to chat and make new friends.
Alumnet:Online School Spirit
By Erin Kelly
Alumnet is a virtual community that was created to inspire the alumni of San Joaquin High School to keep in contact with one another. This community allows people to search an index of users to find old friends and former graduates.
Psych Central
By Randi Moskowitz
Psych Central is a chat line devoted to helping people with psychological disorders. It is a social network of individuals who possess a common interest of sharing emotional support. Emotionally disturbed individuals, both trained and untrained, listen and counsel one another through real time chat.
Adventures in the Rainforest
By Meghan Nims
Rainforest chat is a good community for those who are just learning how to use a chat group; it is easy to use and there are many new users. It is a friendly environment but if you are looking for a community where you will meet the same people everyday, this is not the community for you.
Chatterbox
By Ariana Poniatowski
Chatterbox is part of a site that has a number of different chat groups. The site is called Omnichat, and it offers a number of chat groups with set formats, such as channel chat, sports chat, and a number of others.
Paris. Rome. Where Shall I Find My Mate?
By Annie Chen
The flirting game is what this community is all about. People from all over the world establish homes here to chat all night long. Free homepages and e-mail are available. It doesn't get any better.
Online Bar & Grill
By Joshua Roberts
Twentysomething chatline gives new meaning to the word bar. Although the chattering that goes on here may seem useless, it is very easy to meet new people. Topics of conversation are endless, and the people are fun.
Holy Cow
By Kimberly Skryd
Most conversation that takes place on the ESPN Baseball Chatline encompasses genuine baseball discussion of players, stats, issues, etc. Through socializing with the males and females online, sports consumed most of any conversation. This chatline is welcome to all.
Twentysomething?
By Kyle Stallman
This community may be considered a somewhat informal place to meet people, but if you want to chat about sports, politics, etc., then this may be the place for you. Come join to hang out, observe, or just chat away with other members online.
Where Is Chinna Blue?
By Danielle Taylor
This community consists of a melting pot of diverse ideas. Rooms are created for people with certain interests such as Alternative Music or Fortysomething. Members engage in decent conversation, and people really get a chance to learn about others' interests, while exploring their own.
Chatlines For All
By Maisa Wells
Adult and kid chatlines are compared on the net. Communication styles and topics, marketing, community goals, and access to chats are carefully observed. Find out how these two age groups differ on the net and the implications this has in virtual and real life. You'll never think of chats the same way again...
Venture Into The Flipside of Reality
By Hallie Lipin
Flipside is a MUSE focused on meeting new people and having fun. This was designed to fulfill the needs of the people who were unhappy with MUSES like MicroMUSE. Activities range from going to the library, to gambling at the casino, or to just hanging out. Flipside is looking for members, so join today.
The Globe
By Juliana Tsai
Do you want to have unlimited zones of exploration and continuous real time chat? Visit The Globe. Not only will you discover this boundless site to be well maintained, you will also find The Globe to be a venue that will allow you to create your own launch pad, web site, and maintain your own personal mailbox through the Internet.
A Community of the 24th Century
By Ivan Fatovich
Micromuse is unlike any other virtual community that I have ever seen. This is a text-based community where members can create virtually anything they can think of. For example, one can go on a mission to another planet, but a vivid imagination is essential in order to get there.
Absolutely MUSHy
By Sandra Kang
Check out this site if you want to talk to people from the United Kingdom and everywhere else in the world. Theyre funny, interesting, and in a completely different time zone.
Nuclear War MUDD
By Charles Dulin
Nuclear War is a MUDD, or Multi-User Dungeon Domain, based upon a future where the world has experienced World War 3. This game explores the possibilities of a real world played in a virtual setting.
MicroMuse
By Joshua Ginsberg
MicroMuse provides an educational environment for people from grade school up through college graduates. MicroMuse is viewed as a utopian vision of the societies of the future. Come check it out.
Psych Central: A Mental Health Resource
By Rebecca Foster
Psych Central is a real time chat line focused on helping mentally disturbed or troubled individuals. Online therapists are there to help those who need it. Join now to either help others or to help yourself. ~ h
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