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