aus.culture.gothic FAQ

Part III: Net Guide

Administrivia

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O No advertisements. X Commercial bits are beyond control (eg: a site at Geocities).
1 Commercial bits are incidental and isolated. 2 This site is commercial in nature.
A Archived Usenet or IRC articles, threads, discussion. C Perl or other CGI used.
F Fan page(s). G Some pages are primarily goth in style and/or content.
i Image archives. I Primarily an information site.
D Computer downloads (programs, desktop themes, etc). j Some JavaScript used.
L Links pages. M MIDI/MOD/MP3/WAV/etc sound archives.
P Personal info, generic rants, raves, etc. S Significant documents (eg: FAQs, etc).

World Wide Web

Western Australia

New South Wales

Victoria

South Australia

Queensland

Australian Capital Territory

Tasmania

New Zealand

Other Places

None yet listed. Should communities of goths emerge from their closets somewhere, no doubt I'll include them.

Mailing Lists

Queensland

Western Australia

New South Wales

Other Places

None yet listed.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

Australian Undernet at http://www.oz.org/ is a good place for goths. To chat, log into one of the following servers and the "/join #gothic."

Internet Relay Chat is a system that allows you to "talk" in real-time with lots of people on a "party line." To join in a chat group, you'll need an IRC client such as "irc" for UNIX or "mIRC" for Windows. Once online, use "/join #group" to join a group and then type something to say hello. Type "/me does something" to show your actions.

Resources for this channel include:

Efnet's #gothic is another place you'll find goths, usually from America. Also worth investigating is #altgothic (where many of the alt.gothic regulars pop in). Use the server efnet.telstra.net.au rather than trying to log into American efnet servers. The performance is much better.

Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)

Multi-User Dungeons are an extension to IRC. Essentially, they're a bit like the old Infocom-style text-based adventures (eg: Beyond The Titanic, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, etc). There are different rooms, characters with strengths and weaknesses, etc.

The big attraction to MUDs is the level of interaction goes a bit further than IRC. The downside is that everyone must telnet to the server, which may end up suffering under the load.

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