Week 3 Discussion- Lambdamoo

Lambdamoo could be considered a chatroom, the 'moo' is a text based virtual community where thousands of users have developed different rooms that users can navigate from one to the other. The rooms range from indoor rooms to outdoor rooms. It is an online community that is of the variety 'Moo'. You can create your own persona, and develop rooms that fit with your interests etc. Lambdamoo has just over 3000 users, who regulary use it. It enables people to build 'cyber relationships' with other moos. This online community requires a software programme called telnet, once you have this you are able to begin as a guest character and then build up your persona. It claims to be as 'real as the real world' but can it really people when people are spending hours sitting on a computer, in a made up world? The moo, includes politics such as voting and ballots. It is effectivey a MUD that allows users to interacts with other users, in virtual rooms which they are allowed to create.