October 1999 A Shared Reality: Maps As Metaphor by Carl Malamud.
In the beginning, maps were fiction. We perceived our world as myths defined by
belief not geography. Maps of these imagined worlds came in many shapes and sizes,
but they all mixed the unreal with snippets of the real world. The process of mapping
the real world was one of going from geographies of ideas to maps of real geography.
On the Internet, we will pursue a reverse path: maps of the Internet will progress
from our current maps of network topologies to maps of virtual worlds that we build,
maps of ideas and thoughts.
Map of the Month, "Mapping MUDs" by Martin Dodge.
Multi-User Dimensions are shared fantasy realms built of words and visible only in a player's mind. Can they be mapped?
