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An online community is a group of people who are closely interacting mainly online, with a shared, unifying goal for the whole group. For example, Slashdot is a group blog devoted to discussing technology news, and the group as a whole shares the goal of keeping up with the latest and most exciting news developments of interest to technophiles.

One of the earliest and best-known online communities was The WELL, which got its start in 1985.

Types of online communities include mailing lists, wikis, blogs (especially the Blogosphere as a whole and group blogs), image sharing communities, video sharing communities, Web directory projects, and online academic projects, just to name a few.

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