Virtual Communities & Virtual Worlds

Activeworlds.com
Embark on a journey of discovery, where interactive software is used to build Active Worlds virtual communities. Learn how to participate in Active Worlds.

America Online, Inc.: Electra.com
Hail the global village. Explore AOL's virtual community for women. Includes stimulating discussion on careers, money, relationships, recreation, and style.

Biota.org
Explore the wonders of this project's mission, which is to empower people with the tools necessary to develop virtual worlds and synthetic environments.

Blacksun.com: Blaxxun Interactive
A point of reference for data on constructing virtual worlds. Discover the finer points of building a cyberspace community.

Chatteria, Switzerland
Take a journey on the information highway to Switzerland's largest, Palace-based chat server. Chatteria offers discussion on music topics, film and news.

Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Maryland: Alpha World Atlas
Browse this tour de force of guides and maps to the virtual regions of Alpha World. California State University opens the gateway to the other realm.

Communities.com: Douglas Crockford: Habitat
Explore this resource-rich compilation of data on graphic virtual communities. Includes a collection of documents on the development of Web communities.

Contact Consortium: Hot Links to Virtual Worlds
Build it, and they will come. Examine this repository of information on building/populating Web communities.

Digital Space Corporation: Experimental Virtual Worlds
Digital Space Corporation showcases its experimental virtual worlds. Browse DSC's innovative productions, including the Avatar Teleport virtual world.

Echo New York City: Virtual Salon
Examine the inner recesses of Virtual Salon, an intriguing clearinghouse of resources on everything from computers and culture to arts and media.

Geogities.com
Discover this sprawling cyberspace world of member-generated Web pages. Geo Cities provides members free personal pages, as well as e-mail accounts.

Hotwired.com: Talk
For all you "social animals" out there, who thrive on talking, and talking and talking. Twenty-four-hour Java-based live chat.

Howard L. Rheingold: Virtual Community
Examine Howard Rheingold's piece de resistance on the virtual community. Read this enlightening literary masterpiece at your leisure, and enjoy!

Interlog.com: Liquid Reality
Review the intricacies of Interlog.com's specialization in state-of-the-art 3D design, and the development of dynamic cyberspace communities.

Inworld VR
Enter the gateway to the innovative and exciting realm of InWorld, specializing in the development and implementation of virtual reality and 3D applications.

Live World Productions: Talk City
Explore the networking world of Talk City, a 24-hour chat service that provides a calendar of chat events, as well as community areas for women.

Lost Worlds: Virtual Tours
Embark on this journey to the farthest frontiers of remote and/or mythical realms. Lost Worlds takes on virtual tours of worlds that are truly unforgettable.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge: Virtual Lego
Lego meets Frank Lloyd Wright. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides you with an opportunity to custom-build a structure with Legos.

Sony Corporation, Japan: Virtual Society  Information Guide
Sony central, so to speak. Discover introductory data on current virtual-community research projects being developed by the Sony Corporation.

Synergy Corporation: New World Times: Virtual Reality's Newspaper
Dail-up networking meets the Daily Planet. Examine this probing chronicle of the virtual worlds industry. Includes departmental news and features.

ThePalace.com Directory
Browse this voluminous repository of more than 300 virtual worlds, based on a graphical interface. Explore site descriptions, as well as associated links.

ThePalace.com: Graphical Online Environment
Discover the chameleon-like qualities of this graphical community. Avatars enable you to interact within virtual worlds.

Well.com
Enter the gateway to The Well, where thinkers from all walks of life communicate. Subscribers may engage in more than 260 conferences in cyberspace.