The Virtual Community
Door Metaverse Historian
1. Objective: It is our task--our essential, central, crucial task--to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
2. References in the Intro
2.1. M. Scott Peck
2.1.1. The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
2.1.1.1. stages of community formation
2.1.1.2. characteristics of true community
2.2. Well.com
2.2.1. Wikipedia entry
2.3. MicroMUSE
2.3.1. MicroMUSE is a MUD started in 1990. It is based on the TinyMUSE system, which allows members to interact in a virtual environment called Cyberion City, as well as to create objects and modify their environment.
2.4. TWICS Tokyo
2.4.1. TWICS - Wikipedia
2.5. IRC
2.5.1. Internet Relay Chat - Wikipedia
2.6. Minitel
2.6.1. Minitel - Wikipedia
2.7. MUDs
2.7.1. MUD - Wikipedia
2.8. Michel Foucault
2.8.1. Discipline and Punish
2.8.1.1. Panopticon