{"id":37,"date":"2004-09-15T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-09-16T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T14:33:43","slug":"annotating-rheingold-virtual-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/annotating-rheingold-virtual-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Annotating Rheingold&#8217;s Virtual Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought it interesting that back-to-the-earth hippies ran Howard&#8217;s beloved Well, so I usually include links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefarmcommunity.com\/\">the Farm Community<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefarm.org\/\">the Farm (is there a difference?)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefarm.org\/lifestyle\/miller.html\">some of its history<\/a>, and a bit about the founder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotwisdom.com\/jorn\/gaskin.html\">Stephen Gaskin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then again we have the engineers and bureaucrats who were critical to the growth of the Internet in particular<a href=\"http:\/\/livinginternet.com\/i\/ii_licklider.htm\">J. C. R. Licklider<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/livinginternet.com\/i\/ii.htm\">others.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/onceandfutureweb\/\">The National Institute of Health&#8217;s National Library of Medicine<\/a> has one of the best history of the net sites &#8212; beginning of course with the telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>I have to point out that despite a 10 year opportunity to correct errors, Howard didn&#8217;t credit<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.pfeiffer.edu\/%7Elridener\/courses\/GEMEIN.HTML\">Community<br \/>\n(Gemeinschaft) and Society (Gesellschaft) to Tonnies (he says Durkheim for some reason)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/TH\/\">Tempora Heroica<\/a> has been supporting MUDding for over 10 years and still is going strong. There is a history there to be written for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get all excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonraubenweiss.com\/gibson\/index.html\">William Gibson<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/sterling\/\">Bruce Sterling<\/a>, let&#8217;s remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312862075\/ref=ase_networksofneighb\/002-2574418-0891259\">Vernor<br \/>\nVinge&#8217;s <i>True Names<\/i><\/a> is really The first cyberpunk\/cyberspace story. It<br \/>\nhas obvious and predictive links to MUDs, IRC and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought it interesting that back-to-the-earth hippies ran Howard&#8217;s beloved Well, so I usually include links to the Farm Community, the Farm (is there a difference?), some of its history, and a bit about the founder, Stephen Gaskin. Then again we have the engineers and bureaucrats who were critical to the growth of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}