Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location.

The project that would lead to Fudge was first proposed by Steffan O ' Sullivan on 17 November 1992 on the rec. games. design newsgroup, and over the following months that online community would contribute to the directed project.

* ( Petroleum ) Geology Forum a professional online community to discuss ( petroleum ) Geology!

A gamemaster's duties in an online game are to act as a moderator or customer service representative for an online community.

* BoardGameGeek-Large internet database of boardgames and online fan community.

Today, a steady stream of new works is produced by an online interactive fiction community, using freely available development systems.

* Al-Manarah-leading Libyan online community

This was revealed by the online amateur sceptic's community eSkeptic to be a viral ad promoting the then-upcoming Sony Pictures film The Water Horse.

LambdaMOO is an online community of the variety called a MOO.

They are differentiated from talkers by retaining elements beyond online chat, typically online creation as a community activity and some element of role-playing.

The BBC online music editors will also join the MusicBrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database.

* Rachael's Centre for Torah, Musar & Ethics An online learning community dedicated to Pluralistic Jewish learning through a female lens

As of late 2011, Enemy Territory remains a very popular game and there is a large online community at http :// www. crossfire. nu

Members of this community, " fans ", are in contact with each other at conventions or clubs, through print or online fanzines, or on the Internet using web sites, mailing lists, and other resources.

The earliest organized fandom online was the SF Lovers community, originally a mailing list in the late 1970s with a text archive file that was updated regularly.

In the 1990s, the development of the World-Wide Web exploded the community of online fandom by orders of magnitude, with thousands and then literally millions of web sites devoted to science fiction and related genres for all media.

A sysop (; an abbreviation of system operator ) is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system ( BBS ) or an online service virtual community.

* TPFfers ( Single largest online community of TPF programmers )

* Project: Redcap an online Ars Magica community

This collaborative development process happens via the company's open, online community, www. ingenuityworking. com.

Transcribe Bentham is an award-winning crowdsourced manuscript transcription project, run by University College London's Bentham Project, in partnership with UCL's UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL Library Services, UCL Learning and Media Services, the University of London Computer Centre, and the online community.

The global campus online, led by American universities, allows free access to class materials and lecture files recorded during the actual classes.

The Online Computer Library Center allows library records to be searched online through its WorldCat database.

Being openly licensed and online can be helpful for teachers, because it allows the textbook to be modified according to the teacher's unique curriculum.

This allows for real time playing while everyone is online and active, or slower progress if not.

In 2005, Bungie authorized the release of the full original Mac OS trilogy for free distribution online, which combined with Aleph One and the efforts of the fan community now allows the entire trilogy to be played for free on any of Aleph One's supported platforms ( Mac OS, Linux and Windows ).

One example of the bricks-and-clicks model is when a chain of stores allows the user to order products online, but lets them pick up their order at a local store.

Dish Network put its Blockbuster acquisition to work by announcing Blockbuster movie pass, which allows on-demand movies, game and DVD rentals, and online streaming services for a flat monthly fee.

GoWilkes. com is a well-recognized online media source that allows residents to discuss current events and local happenings in real time.

* Mathematical Assistant on Web online calculation of integrals, allows to integrate in small steps ( includes partial fractions, powered by Maxima ( software ))

Jedi Knight includes a multiplayer mode that allows up to eight people to compete with each other on a local area network and up to four people online.

The flexibility of the Group's quadruple-play capability allows customers to watch now TV programming not only on a TV set, but also on a mobile phone, an online PC, or its eye Multimedia Service and PCCW eye2.

Following the closure of a " beta " version on April 30, 2010, the Yahoo Publisher Network was relaunched as an advertising tool that allows online publishers to monetize their websites through the use of site-relevant advertisements.

It allows customers to order translations via file upload, or typing or pasting text into an online order form.

* The Bicycle Forest's BikeCAD program allows you to design your own frame online.

* Tafl: An Obsession Java applet allows online play of numerous variations featuring user-selected rules

Similar to a social community, being a member of an online community allows you to meet with several people in a chat room, or send messages to one another.

Through online engagement, because of the smoke screen of anonymity, it allows a person to be able to socially interact with strangers in a much more personal way This personal connection the consumer feels translates to how they want to establish relationships online.

The Friendslist allows to add friends and to click online for a chess session.

XHTML Friends Network, for example, allows people to share their relationships on their own sites, thus forming a decentralized / distributed online social network, in contrast to centralized social network services listed in the previous section.

Social viewing allows multiple users to aggregate from multiple sources and view online videos together in a synchronized viewing experience.

It allows the user to post a citation for an article found on the internet or a website, online database like Academic Search Premier or LexisNexis Academic University, a book found in a library catalog and so on.

The compilation features a Color Edit mode that allows the player to create a custom color palette for every character in each game, the choice to play each game with original and arranged soundtracks, and an online versus mode which supports the MMBB service.

Players may also use other CCG engines such as LackeyCCG or Gccg, which allows players to build and share plugins for different card games and play the games online.