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# Amsterdam Web Communities System
Amsterdam is a system allowing for the hosting of multiple virtual communities, each with services such as conferencing. A user on
an Amsterdam site may join multiple virtual communities on that site.
## Why "Amsterdam"?
The first implementation of this concept was in Durand Communications' CommunityWare software, which was code-named "Rome" when it
was in development. Rome was a center of community in the andient world.
was in development. Rome was a center of community in the ancient world.
The second implementation was the Java code I wrote to rescue Electric Minds; I named it "Venice," which was a center of community
during the Renaissance.