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, WordPress, Blogger, TheStudentRoom, Tagged
- Webcomic: UserFriendly, Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance,
- Virtual world/city: LucasFilm's Habitat, Second Life, Millsberry, Red Light Center, IMVU, Neopets
- IM: ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): IRC networks
- 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, PBworks, TV Tropes
- WWW: eBay, GeoCities, Slashdot, Digg
- Consumers: eBay, Amazon.com
- Software that enable online communities: Ning
Additional virtual community listings
Discussion boards
- Hacker News
- Dead Runners Society
- 4chan
- GameFAQs
- Something Awful
- Fark
- 2channel
- Zombie Squad
- IGN
- TOTSE
- Facto Network
Social networking
Art communities
MUD, MUSH, MOO
Ethnicity-based communities
Online Teaching Covens
Other types
- Pinboard
- bianca.com
- Scratch (an educational programming website by MIT)
- GameTZ.com (an online game, music, movie, and book trading community)
- CouchSurfing (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange)
- Hospitality Club (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange)
- Warm Showers (free accommodation worldwide through hospitality exchange for bicycle travelers)
- Meetup (an online service designed to facilitate real-world meetings of people involved in various virtual communities)
- Meetro (local focused communities)
- StumbleUpon (web surfing)
- Woozworld (virtual gaming community for youth)
- YTMND (Picture, Sound, Text)
- Group blogs
- TakingITGlobal (Youth - social networking for social good)
- CrossFit (a fitness program where users post their scores and comments on daily workouts)
- DXY.cn (an online community for physicians, health care professionals, pharmacies and facilities)