What to do on the (Inter)Net : From Mail

AlphaWorld in February 1998

"Satellite" maps of a growing city in AlphaWorld, a huge 3D multi-user virtual world run by ActiveWorlds. The maps were produced by Roland Vilett at different snap-shots over the past five years and by comparing them you can clearly see the rapid urban development in this particular corner of cyberspace.
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/muds_vw.html

Dialog, virtual meetings, one2one to many2many.

• Email : Electronic Mail

• chat, IRC, Instant Messaging

• Mailing lists, newsgroups, usenet

• Televirtuality : when your avatar represent you

Virtual communities, Networked Virtual Environment, or NVE

• MMOGs
  Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as Ultima Online, Everquest

• Military simulators / SIMNET/DIS based military simulators used for training.

• MOOs/MUDs : Text based virtual environments.

  • For More  on MOO and MUD, a summuray by Hugh Fisher