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Communication 482
Winter 2005

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Some Useful Links

Net History and Background

Internet 101
Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
Internet Society History Links

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Some of the first popular images of cyberspace were created for the 1982 movie "Tron"

Net Magazines - Professional & Popular

CMC Magazine
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
The Journal of Online Behavior

The Salon
Wired News
CNet News

Net Communities and Studies

The Well
Electric Minds    
Smart mobs website

Wikipedia
The Face Book
Friendster

 

Blogs...

Blogarama (Directory of blogs)
Blogwise (Another directory)
Blogging 101
Blogger (source of blog software)
Feedster (Search engine for blogs)
Technorati (Another blog search engine)

E-Mail, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups

SupportPath.com
Catalogue of On-line Support Groups
HealthBoards.com

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Internet Relay Chat - mIRC
Spin chat
ICQ chat
Yahoo Chat Site
Cybertown
Talk City
Yahoo Instant Messenger

MSN Instant Messenger

 

MOOs and MUDs

LambdaMOO
BayMOO
RuthMOO
The MOOring
Online Game Resources
Lost Library of MOO

List of Basic MOO Commands
Download a "Client" to make your MOOing and MUDing easier.
A particularly easy client - tkMOO-light

Interactive Graphic Viritual Environments


Habbo Hotel
vZones
Neopets
The Contact - AlphaWorld
Active Worlds
Alien Adoption Agency

 

Grassroots Activism on the Net

Activism.net
Activism Directory
Protest.net
Feminist Activism 
Men's Activism.Org

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