After reading Howard Rheingold's "Introduction" to the idea of the expanding virtual communities I was actually astonished at the age of computer conferencing systems. Since 1985 people from all over the world have been communicating with each other via the internet. They have garnered intense social intimacy once never thought of without being face to face with a person. People consumed with WELLs (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Links) have got together for support groups and judicallily to get legal rights that were once not intitled to them. This world is ever growing and getting more advanced everyday.
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