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According to the Princeton librarian who did an exhaustive search, the first published reference to virtual communities was my 1988 article in Whole Earth Review, "Virtual Communities." In 1990, I created the first Usenet newsgroup about virtual reality. My next book, The Virtual Community, published in 1993, was the first work about the phenomenon of social communication in cyberspace. I served as an online host for the Well since 1985, and sat on the Well Board of Directors. In 1994, I was the founding Executive Editor of HotWired, the first commercial webzine with a virtual community known as Threads. In 1995, I was on the planning committee for the creation of The River, and one of its founding members and hosts. I founded and launched Electric Minds in 1996 -- a webzine with a web-conference-based virtual community of 70,000 registered users. Electric Minds was named one of the ten best websites of 1996 by Time magazine. Electric Minds created, launched, and managed a web-based virtual community for IBM to accompany the Kasparov-Deep Blue II chess match of 1997. I now run a private community, Brainstorms. A new edition of The Virtual Community was published by the MIT Press in November, 2000. ![]() |
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